China’s cyberspace watchdog presses Internet platforms to vet their online content as crackdown deepens

New guidelines emphasise that China’s online platforms are responsible for managing their content and urges them to improve their censorship. It is the latest move by Beijing in its drive to create a ‘clean and healthy’ cyberspace, free from information it deems harmful to society. — SCMP

China’s top cyberspace watchdog has ordered internet platforms to weed out and censor “unhealthy” content in its latest squeeze on Big Tech.

Guidelines issued by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) on Wednesday emphasised that online platforms are responsible for managing their content, and told them to enhance both their self-censorship and the censorship of content generated by their legions of users.