![]() ![]() “The more control of the media there is, the more ordinary Chinese tend to believe in speculation and innuendo,” he says. Lam says that Chinese President Xi Jinping “wants stability above all else in this sensitive period,” but that ultimately censorship could backfire. The administration has repeatedly asked websites to gain the correct certificates before providing audio-visual programs. Willy Lam, a professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong’s centre for China studies, tells TIME that Beijing has steadily tightened the screws on expression ahead of the Chinese Communist Party’s 19th Congress, due to be held around October. Weibo has about 340 million monthly active users, while ACFUN, nicknamed 'A station,' was one of China's first video sites to feature bullet screen interaction, and a major provider of cartoons and anime. An announcement by China’s State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television said the sites hosted “many politically-related programs that do not conform with state rules,” and authorities are trying to “create a cleaner cyberspace,” according to AFP.Įarlier this month another regulator, the Beijing Cyberspace Administration, ordered internet companies to terminate social media accounts that cater to “the public’s vulgar taste” and disseminate celebrity gossip, AFP reports.
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