China’s Baidu told to clean up content after porn found on Cloud

Chinese search engine giant Baidu has been ordered to clean up its content after pornographic files were found on its online storage service, Xinhua news service said late on Sunday. The instruction was given after Beijing’s cultural administrative authorities confirmed public tip-offs that some Baidu Cloud accounts hosted obscene content. Baidu declined to provide immediate comment when contacted by phone. China’s authorities launched an anti-pornography campaign in April as part of wider efforts to ‘clean up’ the Internet. In May, Internet firm Sina Corp was fined 5.1 million yuan for allowing “unhealthy and indecent content” on its online reading channel and on its main website.

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