China has strict content rules ranging from video games to movies to music (representational)
Shanghai:
China’s internet watchdog said it was starting a two-month campaign to clean up websites for users under the age of 18, saying it wanted to promote a healthy online environment.
China’s cyberspace administration said on its website on Tuesday that as part of the campaign, it would review the content of e-learning websites as well as those with live streaming or instant messaging tools. minors.
The regulator intends to “strictly control the information and actions that encourage minors to adopt behaviors that have valuable problems such as hunting for entertainment stars without limits or worshiping money”, a he declared.
The watchdog also said it had recently ordered the Xueersi Online School, a unit of TAL Education Group, to clean up the app’s “footer” content after finding problems with it. his videos and articles.
China has strict content rules ranging from video games to movies to music, and censors anything it says violates basic socialist values. In the past, it has imposed limits on online play time for young users amid reports of growing addiction to games among children.
(Report by Brenda Goh; Edition by Himani Sarkar)
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