China's internet watchdog freezes 10 too-trashy online video services before they undermine socialism
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/06/24/china_video_censorship/
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The Cyberspace Administration of China (CACC)yesterday [1]called out 10 live-streaming platforms - including Bilibili, Tencent-backed Huya and Douyu, Bytedance's Xigua Video, and Baidu's Quanmin Video, for spreading "vulgar" content.
The CAC said it will freeze content updates on the platform's main channels and suspend new user sign-ups until the offending content is taken down. The watchdog will also taking aim at the offending streamers, threatening to blacklist them if they don't clean up their acts.
The announcement of the crackdown says it came after an assessment of 31 online video services found "... chaotic live broadcasts are frequent, some female anchors are exposed in clothing, some male anchors are vulgar."
InfoSec practices were also lax. "Message interaction ... and user account registration are negligent in management, and illegal and illegal information is emerging in an endless stream," the machine-translated announcement states.
And here's the sternest bit of criticism:
Many live broadcast chaos seriously deviate from the core values of socialism, endanger the healthy growth of young people, and corrupt the social atmosphere. All sectors of society call for strict rectification.
The crackdown comes amid Beijing's ongoing effort to clean up the country's online media channels. In recent years, the central government has tightened its grip on content it deems unsuitable, including porn, gambling, fake news, and – of course – any form of political dissent.®
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[1] http://www.cac.gov.cn/2020-06/23/c_1594459834502044.htm
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Re: Vulgar content
Absolutely agreed. Check it out [1]here .
Truly, the very fabric of civilization is tearing apart. You can see her naked arms ! And her midriff is bare as well !
We are doomed. Doomed, I tell you.
[1] https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Jt4y197ZZ
China needs to learn from the West
Trash TV and "unhealthy content" can get you reelected and help you convince the population to vote one way in a referendum in the West.
Re: China needs to learn from the West
Or you can just do it the Chinese way and only give people one way to vote by "deplatforming" anything you feel offends your hypersensibilities by saying it "goes against your core values"
Re: China needs to learn from the West
It doesn't have to be an either-or
If it prevents Tik Tok, Twitter and Facebook...
So maybe China isn't all bad...
on the other hand..
If you've followed the problems Naomi Wu has had from western companies - big ones - you'll see that capitalism plus conservative activists can have the same effect.
(If you've not heard of her, she's a Shenzhen - based tech polymath: vlogger. maker, coder, designer. Her tech content is pretty awesome. But she has people gunning for her pretty much permanently, and it's almost entirely from the West. While there's a big dose of good ole fashioned misogyny, it's exacerbated by people who don't like the way she dresses (or doesn't)
Re: on the other hand..
Wow, there is danger there, bright, young, with a mind and a real presence, so a danger to the closed mind end of society wherever they are from. The same old, same old; recycling scrap in new products is fine, recycling tired old ideas into the same old tired attitudes is not.
I'm too old to work my way through irony / joke / are you serious....
I'm not sure what's "irony" this weather, and what's not: undermine socialism
:D
Block it
My kids are on fecking TicTok all the time.
Stupid dances, in stupid places.
No Wonder
It sounded more fun that the usual CCP platform of old men in tired old clothes.
Vulgar content
And scantily clad presenters?
I need to see it, to decide for myself.