Carefully checking every piece of user-generated content (UGC) before it’s allowed on your website can be a daunting task.
But China is clearly up for the challenge.
The country’s so-called cyberspace administration has announced a new policy that requires approval of all comments on the website before they are published.
The new rules were outlined in a document titled “Regulations for Managing Internet Community Comment Services” published last week.
This means that any company or individual running a website where you can post comments must hire a “review and editing team that scales with your service.”
Moderators of these newly installed comments should check each one before posting and point out potentially illegal information to the administrator.
And we will go further. Sites where readers can post comments must collect their real names and verify their identity before posting comments.
As the Chinese government tried to combat the new Covid-19 onslaught, tighter control appears to have been given following online criticism of the recent forced lockdown.
Internet censorship is already widespread and rigorously enforced in China, which can be a bit difficult for travelers used to trusting a particular website or app.
Most of the blocked sites are in the West, so the level of strict censorship against locals in China is not affected.
This is part of all the social networking sites that are blocked in China and the big websites that are inaccessible due to the Great Firewall of China.
Chinese social networking sites are blocked
- blog point
- FacebookMessenger
- Flickr
- Google More
- periscope
- Quora
- weak
- Snapchat
- crater
- glass
- shaking
- Youtube
Other popular sites and streaming services are banned in China
- ABC
- BBC
- CNN
- Dailymotion
- mailbox
- economist
- gmail
- google docs
- Guard
- lemon
- Netflix
- New York Times
- Reuters
- The Wall Street Journal
- Wikipedia (English)
- yahoo
However, it is possible to access this restricted competition in China using a VPN (Virtual Private Network) application.
Last year, China began imposing limits on the amount of technology available to young people.
National officials have decided that adults will also be restricted from playing three hours of online video games per week.
The state-run Xinhua news agency announced strict new rules after parents said their reliance on games hampered their children’s learning and health.
Game developers must “decisively” install and implement addiction protection and real-name verification systems.
China Games’ regulatory agency, the National Bureau of Press and Publication, said it would step up corporate inspections to ensure deadlines were met.
He added that parents and teachers can play an important role in reducing gaming addiction.
A spokesman for the administration said, “Protecting the physical and mental health of minors is an important benefit of the people and is related to the development of the young generation in the era of national rejuvenation.”
The limits that apply to all devices, including phones, go far beyond the rules set in 2019 by China, which reduced game time to 90 minutes on any given day and up to 3 hours on weekends.
Source: Metro
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