province of china It proudly announced on Sunday that China’s Cyberspace Administration (CAC), the communist government’s top agency for internet censorship, had removed “2.351 million illegal short videos” in a quarterly edition of “pornography, ugliness, weird, fake, profanity, gambling.” and “junk information”.
By CAC “processed” 563,000 illegal broadcast studios, closed 120,000 “illegal user accounts” and fined 218,600 users at the time of printing. Fines of up to $1.77 million were assessed.
Regulars searched for videos on 16 platforms, including WeChat and Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok.
Platforms such as Kuaishou, Bilibili and Huya Live that distribute harmful and objectionable information such as pornography, profanity, violent insults and encourage tipping to broadcasters have been fined and ordered to make corrections, the post said. Wrote.
Censored videos are not just pornographic, vulgar or addictive. Some of the videos were removed by the CAC because they covered topics that were prohibited by the CAC, such as “the nasty lives of Internet artists” or because they spread information that the censors deemed “illegal” or contrary to the “legitimate rights and interests of the public”.
SHANGHAI, CHINA – AUGUST 2, 2021 – A network host from the We-Media live broadcast platform, such as Douyin, Douyu, Kuaishou and Bibili, visited ChinaJoy in Shanghai, China on August 2, 2021. China, State Tax Administration and State Administration of Market Regulation jointly issued Opinions on More Regulation of Online Live Streaming Business Activities and Promoting Healthy Development of Industry. (Photo credit via Costfoto/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
Chinese iron censors very worried for allegedly taking an obsessive interest in celebrity privacy last year. Chinese officials have said that “fan culture” is addictive for young people and distracts them from productive pursuits, and they sometimes use fan loyalty to run aggressive marketing campaigns. Aggressive marketing is another target of the pressures starting in March.
Critics of China’s crusade against “fan culture” suspect that authorities are concerned that many of the celebrities attracting Chinese youth are foreign, particularly South Korean “K-pop” musicians.
In June, he suggested that China’s latest crackdown on the Internet was designed as a warning to tech bosses, whose independence and potential corruption of Western values are a constant concern for the Chinese Communist Party. He thought that because the Chinese economy was in such a state, the last round of technological pressure was lost relatively early. fragile conditions.
(SCMP) reported last month that the focus of the CAC has shifted to online financial crime. The CAC said it has removed more than 42,000 fake financial apps since the start of 2022 and added them to a blacklist of more than 3.8 million websites and 514,000 apps.
The CAC looks set to divert its resources to public scrutiny before the Chinese Communist Party congress this fall, when dictator Xi Jinping presented his bid for an unprecedented third term.
CAS, maybe fastest growing agency in a communist government that has grown to enormous proportions in less than a decade. It is more opaque than most other Chinese regulators and more directly controlled by Xi and his best Communist Party followers.
Source: Breitbart
