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China to punish Internet firm Sina over series of complaints

April 10, 2015 publisher beijing, broad-campaign, country, cyberspace, during-the-2015, excellence, frequent, most-complained, ongoing-online, president, regulator, regulator-said, since-president, toner-prize, user-complaints

China will punish web portal and social media firm Sina Corp after it was identified as operating the most complained about major website in the country, the Internet regulator said on Friday, the latest blow in an ongoing online crackdown. Representatives from Sina, which also operates China's most popular microblog Weibo Corp, discussed “the issues of breaking the law and the recent large quantity of Internet user complaints” with officials from the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) and its Beijing branch, the regulator said in a statement on its website. Since President Xi Jinping came to power in early 2013, he has overseen a broad campaign to bring China's Internet under the government's control

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China clamps down on sexual content on WeChat

March 25, 2015 admin agency, are-voyeuristic, china, committee, cyberspace, edward-taylor, harmful, huge-financial, internet, more-protection, most-popular, the-government

China's Internet regulator issued on Wednesday new guidelines prohibiting sexual and vulgar content on Tencent Holdings Ltd's popular messaging app, the latest step in the agency's perennial campaign to clean up China's Internet. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said sexually explicit pictures and text, including nude photos and erotic animation, and stories of “one-night stands, wife-swapping, sexual abuse and other harmful information” will be subject to punishment.

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China censorship sweep deletes more than 60,000 Internet accounts

February 27, 2015 creative accounts, alibaba-group, baidu, china, chinese, cyberspace, down-control, effort-which, national-people, second-largest, seen-through, showing-binary, singapore, the-accounts, weibo-corp

Some of China's largest Internet companies deleted more than 60,000 online accounts because their names did not conform to regulations due to take effect on Sunday, the top Internet regulator said.