Government moves to clean up internet content

Social networking and streaming sites are coming under greater scrutiny and regulation, as Zhang Yi reports from Beijing with Liu Kun in Wuhan.

The government is working to eradicate inappropriate content on the internet to ensure that the web remains free from obscenity and violent imagery, and to promote a healthy culture online.

Last month, the Cyberspace Administration of China, the national cyberspace regulator, ordered online news aggregator Toutiao and Kuaishou, a site that shares videos lasting about 60 seconds, to remove obscene and violent content and to close all accounts that uploaded such content.