China launches online crackdown on ‘harmful’ content targeting children

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The ruling Communist Party strictly regulates the domestic web, censoring content deemed vulgar, ostentatious or politically subversive.

It targets diverse behaviours such as broadcasting videos that appear to glorify school bullying, adding “violent and gory” content to classic children’s cartoons and songs, and generating profits from underage “internet celebrity kids”.

It also aims to eradicate “softly pornographic” and sexually suggestive products from e-commerce platforms, as well as information that draws children into “harmful friendships” or “transmits harmful values... (through) maliciously fabricated online jargon and vulgar buzzwords”.

Censors blocked multiple well-known influencers after another Clear and Bright campaign was launched in April against “ostentatious personas... (who) deliberately display extravagant lifestyles filled with money”.