China will conduct a three month blitz to cleanse the local internet of "rumors and false information".
The nation's Cyberspace Administration last Friday announced the plan, which calls for local tech companies to improve their ability to identify the source of rumors and fake news, then punish account-holders who share it with warnings, bans, and permanent suspensions.
If a platform can’t get its act together, Beijing will ban it from accepting new users and the platform can expect to be publicly named and shamed.
Local and regional governments have been told to increase their monitoring activities to assist the push, and to improve their efforts to refute information Beijing deems inappropriate.
China’s conducted many such blitzes in recent years, with mixed success. The significance of this one is probably its timing: on October 16th the Communist Party Of China will conduct its 20th National Congress, an event at which Chinese president Xi Jinping is expected to be granted an unprecedented third five year term as the nation’s leader.
Acting to minimize online comment that could in any way take the shine off the Congress, and the decisions it makes, therefore appears to be the aim of this new blitz.
Yet as China already requires registration for many online services using verified real names, announcing the blitz ahead of the Congress also demonstrates some weakness in that regime.
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