The Chinese regime has continued to tighten its grip over the country’s internet by closing down hundreds of websites and thousands of apps, and singling out internet giant Tencent Holdings’s news app for spreading “vulgar content.”
In the first three weeks of this year, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) expunged more than 7 million pieces of online information deemed as “harmful,” and shut down 9,382 mobile apps and 733 websites, the internet regulator said in a statement Jan. 23.
