In 2009, Chinese Officials Criticized Google for Spreading Vulgar Information and Demanded the Removal of Overseas Links
In April 2009, China demanded that Google remove from the google.cn homepage the link leading to google.com, but the request was refused; on June 18, the Internet Society of China issued a notice condemning Google for disseminating obscene, pornographic and vulgar information, while CCTV's Xinwen Lianbo and Focus Report criticized it in succession, and Google was temporarily cut off.