Authorities have been ordered to shut down the offending audio-visual services so as to create a cleaner cyberspace.
China's media oversight body announced Thursday that it has ordered three prominent Internet companies to terminate their video and audio streaming services.
The State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television said in a statement that the sites – including the massively popular Sina Weibo microblogging platform, iFeng.com and ACFUN – did not possess the permits required for providing their audio-visual streams.
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