A radical repression of two months on online content arrives in China, aimed at restricting publications expressing the views of hostility and conflicts to “global clothing”, the best Internet regulator in Beijing announced on Monday.
The Monday opinion of the China cyberspace administration did not specify the start of the repression of the content. He follows an announcement on Saturday saying that CAC would take “disciplinary and punitive measures” against Weibo, a micro-blogging platform, and Kuaishou, a short video service-and a similar action taken on September 11 against Xiaohongshu, the social media service of the Instagram type in English under the name of Rednote. The CAC did not specify what these disciplinary measures are.
The CAC said that it would target positions that included rumors about the Chinese economy – which had trouble this year – as well as manufactured information and “sensational conspiracy theories”.
China’s restrictions on social media are generally much more strict than common moderation methods on Western social platforms. Last year, the CAC began a repression of slang and abbreviations on social networks, in addition to the database of “sensitive words” censors, already prohibit from using on the Internet.
Xinjiang officials last year prohibited ethnic Uighurs from using social media applications. The censors tightened the restrictions on the posts of the Tibetans before the birthday of the Dalai Lama last year. Hong Kong pro-democracy activists claim that the development of social media and the police based on social publications have intensified since article 23 The National Security Act has entered into force.
Includes agency reports France-Presse and Reuters.