China regulates instant messaging services - Xinhua The
regulation aims at promoting the healthy development of the
fast-growing instant messaging sector and safeguarding national security
and public interests, according to the State Internet Information
Office (SIIO) which passed the new rule on Thursday. Targeting China's
5.8 million public accounts on subscription-based mobile apps such as
Tencent's mobile text and voice messaging service WeChat, the new
regulation will take immediate effect. Registrants of public accounts
are obliged to register with real names and reviewed by service
providers before being qualified to release information. "A few people
are using the platforms to disseminate information related to terrorism,
violence and pornography as well as slander and rumors," said Jiang
Jun, spokesman of the SIIO. "Such behaviors have raised bitter feelings
among netizens."..Similar regulations were passed for China's
microblogging service Sina Weibo in 2012. The Twitter-like service
currently has more than 500 million registered users.// the new regulations: 授权发布: 即时通信工具公众信息服务发展管理暂行规定
Thursday, August 7, 2014
China Cracks Down on Messaging Apps - WSJ
China Cracks Down on Messaging Apps - WSJ New
public accounts must register using real names and sign an agreement
that they will "abide by laws and regulations, the socialist system,
national interests, the legitimate rights and interests of citizens,
public order, social morality and ensure the authenticity of the
information they provide." The rules also said that only news
organizations and authorized websites will be allowed to post or share
political news. Accounts that violate the rules can be warned,
restricted from posting content or removed.//No surprise, Wechat
is where most of the action is now and, unlike with Weibo, the
government has yet to seize its commanding heights. There is a lot of
continuity between Internet management under Xi Jinping and the previous
administration, although, as with many things, Xi is pushing harder and
further than his predecessors did and has consolidated the regulatory
powers under the Internet Security and Informatization Leading Group,
with Lu Wei and SIIO taking point. This is something I wrote last September during
the Weibo BigV crackdown, pointing out the consistency with the
publicly released decision from the 6th plenum of the 17th party
congress in October 2011. Beijing has been working for years on
harnessing the Internet for its economic potential while mitigating the
risks to the Party-State's control. So far they have succeeded far more
than most ever expected in building an Internet with Chinese
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