Sébastien Le Belzic, edited by Solène Delinger 06:32, January 28, 2022
One week before the launch of the Winter Olympics in Beijing, China intends to "purify" the Web.
The Chinese authorities are going to rid the Net of sites devoted to celebrities, pornography, online gambling.
The goal is to defend "good values" and to stem "the spread of an unhealthy culture".
“Purification” mission for China, which has challenged itself to clean up the Web as the Winter Olympics in Beijing approach.
The very powerful Chinese cyberspace administration has indeed announced the start of a campaign to defend the "good values" of the Middle Kingdom and "stem the spread of an unhealthy culture".
Removal of celebrity sites
It is a vast "clean web" operation that China has just launched, a regular cleaning of the Web that will last a month.
The goal?
Delete celebrity sites, forums run by music or movie fans, sites featuring overly luxurious lifestyles, and, of course, pornography, online gambling, and even young men too effeminate to the taste of the communist regime.
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cyber police
An army of censors are at work.
They will sift through the Chinese web.
These cyber policemen stage themselves in videos where they sing their love of order and the Communist Party "Let's build an Internet of glory and dreams", sings the troop in a program broadcast by Chinese television Down with qualified culture vulgar in a country where the regime closely monitors the web already subject to censorship.
China, which has more than a billion Internet users, also requires sites and social networks to have their own censors to purge the Net of this now banned content.