China has launched a month-long campaign to clean up online content during next week\u2019s lunar new year festival, in its latest effort to reshape behaviour on the internet.<\/p>\n
The Cyberspace Administration of China, the country\u2019s top internet regulator, has instructed officials to sweep away \u201cillegal content and information\u201d and target celebrity fan groups, online abuse, money worship, child influencers and the homepages of media sites.<\/p>\n
The campaign will apply the tradition of cleaning house before the new year, the most important holiday in China, to the internet, envisioning a \u201cpurification\u201d of the online world.<\/p>\n
The edict is the latest step in Beijing\u2019s clampdown on the entertainment industry as authorities purge content deemed immoral, unpatriotic and non-mainstream from online culture.<\/p>\n
Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n China has launched a \u2018purification\u2019 campaign to clean up online content ahead of next week\u2019s lunar new year.<\/p>\n Officials have been instructed to target celebrity fan groups, online abuse, money worship, child influencers and the homepages of media sites https:\/\/t.co\/L35zqtTjSJ<\/a><\/p>\n — Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) January 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \n