Cracking down: This is China's latest step to clean up its cyberspace. Pictured is Xi Jinping, China's president.
SHANGHAI: China's Internet supervisors have taken down more than 5,500 illegal apps for disseminating pornographic and violent content among other things, the official Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday.
The move is the latest step taken by Beijing to clean up its cyberspace, having launched a crackdown on virtual private network services that allow users to bypass censorship on Monday.
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