China expanded an Net cleanup campaign Friday, shutting down an edgy blog hosting site for apparently carrying “harmful comments” and naming more than a dozen sites containing pornography or other vulgar composition.

The latest government World Wide Web sweep began with a well-publicized crackdown on pornography, which is banned in China, but was widened to include a blog hosting site popular with activists, http://www.bullog.cn.

The site was shut down Friday afternoon, founder Luo Yonghao told The Associated Press.

“I

got an e-mail from the Beijing Communications Administration that afternoon, saying the Web site restricted harmful comments on current affairs and therefore will be closed,” he said, declining to elaborate.

It was not known whether the shutdown of bullog.cn was permanent. The site, home to some outspoken social and political commentary, was closed temporarily last year during a key Communist Party congress after criticism of the meeting was posted.

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