China launched Tuesday a new round of harsh crackdown on spreading pornographic content through Internet or mobile WAP sites to “purify the social environment,” government sources said.

The campaign, running from December to next May, was initiated by nine central government departments, aiming to “resolutely eradicate pornographic and vulgar content on the Internet and mobile WAP sites and clean up the online and mobile media environment,” according to a teleconference.

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