Douyin, China’s TikTok, bans thousands of accounts in crackdown against porn, prostitution

This initiative continues the decades-long campaign in China against pornography and other content deemed inappropriate by the country’s censors. ByteDance-owned Douyin said it has permanently blocked 127,000 accounts this month and helped police track down perpetrators in two cases. — SCMP

Popular short video app Douyin, the Chinese-language version of TikTok, has banned tens of thousands of user accounts to ramp up its campaign against pornography, prostitution and other related illegal activities on its platform.

ByteDance-owned Douyin said it has permanently blocked 127,000 accounts this month and helped police track down perpetrators in two cases, according to its blog post on Tuesday in news aggregator Jinri Toutiao, which the Beijing-based tech startup also owns.