According to the report, the group "decided to launch a nationwide campaign to clean up a vulgar current on the Internet and named and exposed a large number of sites violating public morality and
harming the physical and mental health of youth and young people." Nineteen Internet operators and Web sites including Google, Baidu and Sina.com were named in the report for failing to heed censors
in swiftly cutting vulgar content.
China has launched several Internet censorship efforts before, but officials claimed tougher measures would be taken this time. "Some websites have
exploited loopholes in laws and regulations," Cai Mingzhao, a deputy chief of the State Council Information Office, who chaired the meeting, told state television. "They have used all kinds of ways to
distribute content that is low-class, crude and even vulgar, gravely damaging mores on the Internet." Law breakers, he said, would face "stern punishment."