China orders Google to stop porn

June 19, 2009 China's Internet watchdog on Friday ordered Google to stop overseas Web sites with "pornographic and vulgar" content from being accessed through its Chinese-language search engine. The China Internet Illegal Information Reporting Center had told Google to "make immediate changes" and clean up the content available through its search engine, the official Xinhua news agency reported. The targeting of Google illustrates the difficulties faced by foreign Internet firms doing business in the world's largest online market while avoiding charges of censorship.

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