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The name is very likely a play on China's "净网行动" (literally translate to: a campaign to cleanse the Internet).

Unfortunately there's no much English reference for it, but https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-hans/%E6%89%AB%E9%BB%84%E6%89%93... is a Wiki page in Chinese.

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"clean net 2014" mainly cleans up pornographic content.

No, it's a way to censor a lot of websites or push them to self-censor their content.

There are multiple waves of "Campaign to cleanse the Internet". The linked wiki page is for 2014 and the latest one is in 2020: http://www.gov.cn/xinwen/2020-04/11/content_5501287.htm

I don't deny that "clean net" is pushing self-censorship.

I just want to point out that Pompeo’s goal of cleaning up a country can easily extend to ethnic groups, which seems to be a sign of fascism.

The name is an obviously racist play on the word "clean", because what makes something clean is no contact with the "dirty" Chinese. The Trump administration is not as literate as you suggest.

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