China Internet Illegal Information Reporting Center (CIIRC) on Monday praised two websites who promptly filtered lewd contents after warnings to remove questionable content and reproved one website that failed to weed out vulgar content in a timely manner.

The Beijing-based xilu.com has shut down its picture-posting section which contained vulgar content and the Shanghai-based blogbus.com has made a complete overhaul of its blog platform, according to a statement issued by the CIIRC.

Both websites have taken effective measures and deserve commendation, it said.

The Guangdong-based chinawap.cn, however, has not weeded out all of its lewd pictures, although it has shut down the album program. The CIIRC said more effective endeavors should be taken to eliminate all vulgar content.

The CIIRC exposed the three websites on January 29 in its sixth blacklist of websites "containing a large amount of lewd content" and ordered the sites to immediately clean up their content.

The center warned that it would shut down the sites if they fail to weed out "vulgar content."

China has shut down up to 1,507 such websites since the anti-porn campaign was launched on January 5. More than 70 websites, including major Internet portals such as Sina, MSN China and search engines Google, Baidu, have been given warnings to remove pornography, which is illegal in China.

(Xinhua News Agency February 3, 2009)