China’s Sina Weibo was ordered to move several portals offline for a week, the country’s internet watchdog said.
China’s Sina Weibo was ordered to move several portals offline for a week after spreading obscene and wrongly oriented content, the country’s internet watchdog said.
The government has been tightening controls over internet content as part of efforts to maintain « social stability, » taking on « vulgar » and pornographic content as well as the unauthorized dissemination of news.
« Content of wrong public opinion orientation, obscenity and ethnic discrimination continued to spread on Sina Weibo, » the Beijing office of the Cyberspace Administration of China said in a statement late on Saturday.
In a separate statement, Weibo said it accepted the criticism and was suspending key portals such as its hot search site and portal on celebrities and their personal lives for a week.
China shut down as many as 128,000 websites that contained obscene and other « harmful » information in 2017, state media has reported.
