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Crackdown on online pornography launched

China will launch a renewed campaign against the spread of pornography on the Internet, the national anti-porn agency announced on Sunday. The campaign, Cleaning the Web 2014, will conduct thorough checkups on websites, search engines and mobile application stores, Internet TV USB sticks, and set-top boxes, the National Office Against Pornographic and Illegal Publications said in a circular. All online texts, pictures, videos and advertisements with pornographic content will be deleted, according to the circular.