Websites warned against hyping reports for profit
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CHINA’S Internet regulator is warning mobile Internet operators not to seek profits by spreading harmful information.
Peng Bo, deputy director of the Cyberspace Administration of China, said previous cases of media reports hyping up bloody attacks on children or copycat suicides to earn click rates are believed to have incited malicious imitators.
“We should never seek such ‘blood-tainted’ clicks,” Peng said yesterday at a conference on promoting rule of law in mobile Internet regulation.
Peng said the government will support mobile Internet development but warned business operators to practice socialist core values and not spread information in violation of the country’s Constitution or content that undermines national security, national unity or social stability.
Content that runs counter to the country’s religious policies or those that advocate cults, pornography, violence, terrorism and other crimes are also prohibited, Peng said.
He also urged operators to keep a close eye on insulting or defamatory information that infringes citizens’ rights.
Peng said China is planning to draft or enact a series of laws and regulations related to cyberspace administration, including legislation regarding telecommunication, cyberspace security, e-commerce and personal information protection as well as a regulation on the protection of minors.
Figures from the China Internet Network Information Center showed that there were 632 million Internet users by the end of June, and mobile users totaled 527 million.
Peng said mobile Internet is developing at an unprecedented speed and involved in almost every part of ordinary people’s lives.
It has also generated problems such as spam, privacy infringement and security concerns which must not be neglected, he said
Peng urged implementation of requirements on rule of law in a key decision approved at a recent meeting of the Communist Party of China on cyberspace administration.
Representatives of major Chinese mobile Internet operators, including news websites, mobile application stores, microblogging and mobile messaging service providers, attended the conference.
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