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    Over 4,000 illegal websites shut down amid latest internet cleanup campaign


    More than 400,000 pieces of vulgar and harmful information were removed and 4,800 websites were shut down in China's internet cleanup campaign, which was jointly launched by six ministries and departments in June, the National Office Against Pornography and Illegal Publications said on Wednesday.


    The office has also urged websites and platforms to get rid of more than 20 million pieces of vulgar and harmful information, and remove more than 8 million illegal accounts.


    In one example, authorities in Jinhua, East China's Zhejiang Province, investigated a case of a website spreading obscene videos and pictures. Customers were attracted through online shopping platforms to social media for secret deals. In the case, over 8,000 videos and 50,000 pictures were spread, reaching to over 100,000 people, most of whom were minors and students. The main culprit surnamed Jiang was recently sentenced to six years in prison, while another was sentenced to three years in prison.


    The campaign focused on crackdown on chaotic phenomena of entertainment circles, minors' addiction to online games, and problems such as online behaviors that disrupt market order. It also targeted actions infringing on users' rights and interests, threatening data security, and violating resource and qualification management regulations.


    On May 8, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) revealed a "Clear and Bright" campaign, aiming to crack down on illegal online behaviors, including chaotic phenomena relating to the entertainment sector and irrational behaviors of fan groups.


    On August 27, the CAC specified 10 measures aiming at enhancing a sense of urgency to regulate the fan circle culture to safeguard online political and ideological security, and supervise the platforms to implement the measures. The measures include cancelling all ranking lists of entertainers, barring forums that promote fights which lead to chaos, and requesting agencies to better guide fan groups.


    To prevent gaming addiction among minors, China's National Press and Publication Administration, the country's media regulator, on August 30 ordered internet gaming companies to provide just one hour of service to minors from 8-9 pm on Fridays, weekends and official holidays.


    "Since the launch of the campaign, the internet environment has been significantly improved, and the order of the network market has become more standardized," said responsible person of the office.


    However, problems such as value-oriented deviation and vulgar contents have not been completely contained, indicating that the campaign should continue, the responsible person said.

    Over 4,000 illegal websites shut down amid latest internet cleanup campaign - Global Times

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    vulgar and harmful information
    But I like vulgar and harmful information! It's a long way from Soros' utopian "Open Society", that's for sure.

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    China Hauls in Tech Giants Over Underage Gaming Rules, Shares Tumble

    China's propaganda ministry and media regulators on Thursday hauled in representatives of Tencent, NetEase, and other technology giants, ordering them to fully implement recent restrictions on online gaming for underage players.


    The meetings sparked sharp falls in technology share prices. The Hang Seng index fell by 2.3 percent at Thursday's close to 25,716.00, the biggest one-day percentage drop since July 27, while the China Enterprises Index lost 2.8 percent.


    The heads of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s central propaganda department and the General Administration of Press and Publications (GAPP) told the companies they would be expected to comply fully with a slew of recent regulations on the technology sector, including the minor gaming ban during weekdays and restrictions on "obscenity," "gore," "terror," "feminized men," and "overblown aesthetics" in game content.


    "All gaming companies have to strictly enforce the orders of the notice and thoroughly implement the play-time restrictions on minors when they are providing online games to them," the departments said in a statement carried by state news agency Xinhua.


    "Obscene and violent content and those breeding unhealthy tendencies, such as money-worship and effeminacy, should be removed," it said.


    Meanwhile, Reuters reported that China has temporarily suspended approval for all new online games, in a decision revealed at a meeting with Tencent and NetEase.


    Tencent declined to comment. NetEase did not immediately respond to Reuters' request for comment, the agency reported.


    The government banned under-18s in August from playing more than three hours' of online video games in any week, limiting their sessions to Fridays, weekends, and vacation days, in a bid to fight back against gaming addiction, which the CCP views as "spiritual opium."


    Current affairs commentator Bi Xin said it was unprecedented for the CCP's central propaganda department to get involved in the content of video games.


    "Any department in China can call in any company for a meeting, but the levels of seniority are getting higher and higher," Bi said. "The fact that the central propaganda department did this means it's a matter of ideology."


    Asserting full control


    A scholar from the northern Chinese city of Taiyuan surnamed Ren said the CCP won't stop at gaming, but will eventually assert full control over all sectors of the economy.


    "They have already started the rectification of various sectors with these meetings, which is to say that they are tightening [government] control of every industry," Ren said.


    "Ride-sharing apps are one example; the government has rectified them to strengthen control and place restrictions on market participants," he said.


    Online gamer Song Shiwen said the gaming restrictions will also likely be enforced by government officials at grassroots level, in a reference to residential community committees and neighborhood committees across China.


    "Once the central government has made an order like that, it doesn't necessarily have to follow up with policies or crackdowns ... it means departments lower down [the hierarchy] have to do it," Song said.


    "That means governments in every city and province will have to step up enforcement."


    Chinese regulators have ordered several tech giants to "rectify" their business models amid an ongoing crackdown on the private technology sector.


    Officials from the Ministry of Transport, the Cyberspace Administration of China, and the State Administration of Market Supervision, met with managers from ride-sharing app Didi Chuxing, the food delivery app Meituan, and nine other transportation and travel firms on Sept. 1 and ordered them to clean up their act.


    They were warned not to use "vicious" competition or disorderly expansion or to pass on operation risks to gig-economy workers like drivers.


    Crackdown on private companies


    The moves come amid an ongoing crackdown on large, privately owned technology companies, and as ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) general secretary Xi Jinping starts to implement measures aimed at achieving "common prosperity," or moderate wealth for all.


    There are also growing indicators that the government is also moving towards nationalization of user data and services.


    A new data security law that took effect on Sept. 1 lays down strict regulations about what technology platforms must do with data entrusted to service providers by hundreds of millions of users.


    Meanwhile, a personal information protection law aimed at setting controls on companies' use of user data will likely take effect in November 2021.


    The State Administration of Market Regulation (SAMR) said on Aug. 30 that it would regulate the sharing economy, a sector that includes companies facilitating ride-sharing, bike-sharing, home sharing, and even the pooling of battery packs for phones.


    And the CCP is pushing tech giants to invest in a state-owned "cloud" storage platform, in a direct, and nationalized, challenge to tech giants Alibaba, Huawei, and Tencent.


    Companies owned by the Tianjin municipal government have been ordered to migrate their data away from commercial cloud service providers to the state-owned alternative, Reuters reported recently.


    At the same time, the government is tightening supervision of algorithms used to send tailor-made data, content, and advertising to users, banning algorithms that are designed to make users spend large amounts of money, or "disrupt public order."

    China Hauls in Tech Giants Over Underage Gaming Rules, Shares Tumble — Radio Free Asia

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    Will Cujo be restricted to 3 hours per week on TD? Now that would be awful.

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    ^ Cujo has to use a VPN to see this forum. We are blocked in China.

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    Righto. Well as I understand it, many many people in China of the affluent Middle class and above have a VPN. So I wonder how well this attempted cyberspace censorship is going to actually work IRL ... Xi might start getting all affronted.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    It's a long way from Soros' utopian "Open Society", that's for sure.
    Another lemming that is consumed by right wing propaganda.

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    Have you read his book "Open Society" snubs? I found it quite interesting back in the day- but the Chinese ain't buying it.
    Ferk sake though- how many books has Soros spat out? He's like a Mills & Boon novelist.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    I found it quite interesting back in the day- but the Chinese ain't buying it.
    Yet you take all their nonsense right up the arse. What a lemming.

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    Yes of course, don't let evidence and facts get in the way of a good ideological fantasy Comrade.

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    Quote Originally Posted by misskit View Post
    Over 4,000 illegal websites shut down amid latest internet cleanup campaign
    Perhaps the reasons are IVM? same as (damn, where was it?)

    And do they shut down also FB, Tweets and Co.?

    (The bloody chinkies have always to copy everything...)

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    China starting a new Cultural Revolution?-jinping-jpg

    He was a fattish but active man of paralysing stupidity, a mass of imbecile enthusiasms -- one of those completely unquestioning, devoted drudges on whom, more even than on the Thought Police, the stability of the Party depended.

    George Orwell...Nineteen Eighty Four

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    Righto. Well as I understand it, many many people in China of the affluent Middle class and above have a VPN. So I wonder how well this attempted cyberspace censorship is going to actually work IRL ... Xi might start getting all affronted.
    They will make it an offence to buy a subscription to VPNs, or ban VPNs from in country.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Switch View Post
    They will make it an offence to buy a subscription to VPNs, or ban VPNs from in country.
    Or they'll simply arrest anyone who uses one and charge them with "Offensive disgust against telegraph poles" or whatever other stupid fucking token charge they can use to jail someone in a kangaroo court.

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    ^Still speaking about China? (just curious, sometimes the thread turns away even from actress...)

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    China orders gaming giants to cut ‘effeminate’ gender imagery

    Chinese authorities have ordered gaming giants to end their focus on profits and cut content perceived to be breeding “effeminacy”, as Beijing tries to direct youth culture, gender ideals, and the reach of big tech.


    The move is the latest by authorities to tighten their grip on the embattled technology sector and sparked a collapse in the share prices of some of the industry’s biggest names.


    Officials on Wednesday summoned gaming enterprises including Tencent and NetEase, the two market leaders in China’s multi-billion-dollar gaming scene, to discuss further curbs on the industry, which has already been ordered to limit children’s gaming time to three hours a week.


    Among the new targets are media representations of men, which experts say are a cause for anxiety among the conservative, older generation of Communist Party leaders.


    In recent days, regulators have ordered broadcasters to resist “abnormal aesthetics” such as “sissy” men, calling for more masculine representations in programming.


    Late Wednesday, the official Xinhua news agency reported the latest edicts against gaming.


    “Obscene and violent content and those breeding unhealthy tendencies, such as money-worship and effeminacy, should be removed,” it said.


    Enterprises who flout rules will be punished, authorities warned.


    The target is driven by a perception among sections of society that “effeminate men are physically weak and emotionally fragile,” University of Hong Kong associate professor Geng Song said, with the inference that ‘feminine’ men cannot defend the nation.


    Song added that heterosexuality is seen as the only gender norm, leading to “anxiety” over more ambiguous representations of sexuality and identity.


    Stocks tumble


    “Some leaders may believe that excessive gaming is also contributing to a softening of character in young men,” Derek Hird, a senior lecturer in Chinese Studies at Lancaster University, told AFP.


    The latest talks add to tightening oversight on tech giants in the world’s biggest gaming market, with Beijing rolling out rules to weed out the excesses of the culture among Chinese youth — from worsening eyesight to online addiction.


    Besides breaking from a focus on profit and gaining fans, gaming businesses were also told to “change game rules and designs inducing addiction”, said Xinhua.


    Gaming companies have already stepped up restrictions on minors, drastically cutting the online gaming time of children to just three hours a week during term time.


    Tencent rolled out a facial recognition “midnight patrol” function in July to root out children masquerading as adults to get around a curfew.


    Investors, already on edge over recent crackdowns, ran for the hills Thursday, sending NetEase plunging 11 percent and Tencent 8.5 percent lower.


    Other tech giants that have been caught in China’s crosshairs recently were also hammered, with e-commerce titans Alibaba and JD.com each shedding more than 5.5 percent.


    Traders had been cautiously buying back into the industry in recent sessions on hopes that the Chinese clampdown on private enterprises may be easing off.


    “This demonstrates the risk for those attempting to call the bottom with so much uncertainty still hanging,” Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Matthew Kanterman said.


    “I don’t think the overnight news is a big departure from that which we already knew, but the reaction clearly signifies the skittishness of investors around any regulatory news.”

    China orders gaming giants to cut 'effeminate' gender imagery | Thai PBS World : The latest Thai news in English, News Headlines, World News and News Broadcasts in both Thai and English. We bring Thailand to the world

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    Quote Originally Posted by Switch View Post
    They will make it an offence to buy a subscription to VPNs, or ban VPNs from in country.
    They're technically not illegal but many are banned. Typical China. The next step is making the use/installation itself illegal.

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    China clamps down on cartoons as it steps up campaign against entertainment industry


    China has said it will encourage cartoon producers to create "healthy" content as it steps up efforts to reign in its entertainment industry.


    The Communist Party aims to clamp down on violent, vulgar or pornographic content.


    Broadcasting regulator The National Radio and Television Administration said children and young people were the main audiences for cartoons, and agencies need to broadcast content that "upholds truth, goodness and beauty".


    After years of runaway growth, Chinese regulators have been to trying to strengthen control by tightening oversight over a broad number of industries ranging from technology, education and culture.


    At the start of the month, China ordered broadcasters to shun artists with "incorrect political positions" and "effeminate" styles, and said a patriotic atmosphere needed to be cultivated.

    China increased penalties for actors who had engaged in illegal or "unethical" behaviour, and punished agencies who partnered with them


    The NRTA also bolstered the regulation of stars' salaries.


    This came in the wake of a series of celebrity scandals involving tax evasion and sexual assault.


    Some comments on Chinese social media site Weibo were critical of the new guidelines for broadcasters.


    "Actually aesthetics should be diverse," said one person.


    Another person added: "Isn't this a kind of discrimination?"


    The clamp downs have been part of a wider effort to intervene in all aspects of the country's culture and economy, with the government also promising to tackle inequality, soaring property prices and profit-seeking education institutions.


    The Communist Party celebrated its centenary in July, and President Xi Jinping marked the occasion by promising to "enhance" the party's powers and strengthen the unity of the Chinese people.


    The party can censor anything they believe violates core socialist values and already have stringent rules on content ranging from video games to movies and music.


    China clamps down on 'unhealthy' cartoons

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    That Mr. Shithole is a really miserable bastard isn't he?

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    That Mr. Shithole is a really miserable bastard isn't he?
    Yup, at least all this oppression gives North Korea the hope of not being the most isolated country in Asia

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    ^ That reminds me of an infamous Times headline, around the turn of the 20th century-

    "Fog on the Channel. Continent Isolated"



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    ^ Isolated and insulated

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    ^^^^Your comments are often right on Harry but your language is really unhelpful.

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    Quote Originally Posted by russellsimpson View Post
    ^^^^Your comments are often right on Harry but your language is really unhelpful.
    You've obviously mistaken me for someone who gives a fuck.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    ^ That reminds me of an infamous Times headline, around the turn of the 20th century-

    "Fog on the Channel. Continent Isolated"


    That reminds me of the infamous song around the middle to late 20th century.


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