Faithless?: Barely three weeks after the US and China agreed not to spy on each other for commercial gains, China appears to have reneged on the agreement by using state-sponsored hackers to compromise at least seven US companies, according to CrowdStrike Inc.
BEIJING/SHANGHAI: A Chinese content regulator has rapped major tech companies, including Alibaba Holding Ltd, Tencent Holdings Ltd and Baidu Inc, for not doing enough to root out "harmful information" published on their platforms.
The anti-pornography office of China's powerful broadcasting watchdog convened a meeting with 16 major Internet companies, telling them they needed to tighten oversight of vulgar and obscene information, the official Xinhua news agency said.
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