China has shut down 91 websites containing porn and lewd content in the past three days, according to state news agency Xinhua.

The Chinese government last week launched a fresh campaign to “purify the internet”, led by the State Council Information Office. It has targeted top portals and search engines such as Sina, Baidu and Google.

Chinese authorities have also vowed to beef up crackdown efforts in the coming days, and have urged offending webmasters to voluntarily turn themselves in to public security departments.

As part of the censorship campaign, the government has listed 33 international sites – including Google and MSN - which the company claims are not doing enough to censor pornography and other “inappropriate content”.

In a progress update published last week, most of the sites – including Google – were chided for needing to “continue the clean up.” Chinese search site Baidu was listed as making “ineffective” clean up efforts. 

Source:telecomasia.net