“China has tightened rules for mobile app developers including requiring real-name registration and preserving users’ activity logs, the country’s internet regulator said on Tuesday, as Beijing looks to strengthen oversight of the growing app market,” Adam Jourdan reports for Reuters.
“The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said in a statement that mobile app providers would need to fulfill six requirements to help crack down on ‘unscrupulous’ use of their platforms to carry out fraud, distribute pornography and spread malicious rumors,” Jourdan reports. “Mobile app providers will have to verify users’ identities with real-name registration, improve censorship and punish users who spread what the CAC called illicit information on their platforms. The firms will also have to save user activity logs for a period of 60 days, it said.”
Jourdan reports, “Chinese authorities launched a campaign last week to clean up the comments sections on websites to prevent the spread of ‘harmful information’ and encourage what it considers more helpful, well-intentioned comments.”
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“App stores and providers must establish the identity of users, while monitoring and reporting postings that contain banned content,” David Ramli reports for Bloomberg. “The legitimacy of developers who post apps for download must also be verified, according to new rules posted on the Cyberspace Administration of China’s website Tuesday.”
“The regulations will apply to more than a dozen platforms that offer apps for download, including Apple’s and those operated by local smartphone makers,” Ramli reports. “Apple, which has a reputation for strictly policing its app store, had no immediate comment. Google’s app store isn’t available in China.”
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MacDailyNews Take: What could go wrong?
Any criticism of the communist government is what they call “malicious rumors” and “harmful information”
You can be jailed, or just disappear for that.
And we feed our retail purchase money to this country.
Kind of stupid.
Apple: You know what I’m going to say…
What could go wrong? Everything.
Gee anyone remember when the internet was a playground for anarchy?
“App stores and providers must establish the identity of users, while monitoring and reporting postings that contain banned content.”
Gee that’s so magnanimous of them, I mean when that sort of request comes out with no ass wiping demands you have to pause and give thanks.
I guess the proxies will be working in full swing.
If you really want to know, “Psy-ops” by external government agencies such as the CIA and MI5 using NGO’s and Social Media for regime change is what China is afraid of. But I doubt you really want to know that. I am betting you are much too happy having your brain washed by CNN, Fox or…..any of the US mainstream media actually. US good, everything else bad. Of course!
You really don’t know me at all if you throw that assumption my way. I’m very aware of that other miscreant country you mention. Try asking sometimes other than making a wild assumption like that. People might get the impression that you are an asshole.
Doing business with communists.
What could, as MDN says, possibly go wrong?
Heard somewhere in the Capitol:
“Why didn’t we think of that!”
NSA does not require permission or assistance to snoop.
BIG MAO IS WATCHING.
Let’s hope they stick to just watching, otherwise they might turn into the really bad guys.
It is time- way past time- to cut off China and tell it to go fuck itself.
And tell them we will see you when people can vote for something other than the Communist Party.