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Subject: The Chinese authorities on Tuesday named a number of well-known IT companies, including leading search engine Baidu and social media giant Sina,…
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The Chinese authorities on Tuesday named a number of well-known IT companies, including leading search engine Baidu and social media giant Sina, which have been ordered to correct or shut down their online storage services for spreading pornography
In March, the National Office Against Pornographic and Illegal Publications joined hands with the Ministry of Public Security and Internet and media regulators in a latest campaign to crack down on pornographic content on online storage services
Suspects have been found storing tens of thousands of porn videos on online storage spaces, and selling these accounts on e-commerce platforms such as taobao.com, the office told the Xinhua News Agency
The cloud drives were provided by various online storage or video streaming services including Sina, Baidu and 115.com
Beijing-based Sina was fined and ordered to shut down its online publishing services on May 3
Baidu was fined on May 6 for providing online storage services that were used for sexual content
Another report released Tuesday on the security of Chinese mobile Internet showed that three quarters of the apps that have been reported as inappropriate to a Ministry of Industry and Information Technology hotline contained sexual content
A report on the mobile Internet development that was jointly released by The Internet Society of China and the National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team/Coordination Center of China NGOs said that 75 percent of the 200,684 reports on mobile apps dealt with by the 12321 reporting center were related to sexual content, chinanews.com reported Tuesday
In 2015, 235 apps were shut down by the reporting center for having sexual content
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