Beijing freezes social media service for a month for letting kids see smut

China's cyberspace regulator on Wednesday ordered Tencent's QQ messaging platform to shut down its short video creation and sharing service for 30 days after it found it had exposed minors to graphic sexual material. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) accused the 24-year-old social networking platform of harboring "a …

[Pascal Monett]

"particularly for website platforms that 'repeatedly make mistakes' "

No wonder Facebook is not present in China.

Zuckerberg would never get out of jail.

[Anonymous Coward]

Note to Braverman and Donelan

*That's* how you deal with the problem.

[Anonymous Coward]

Aaaaaand…

How about parents just not letting their kids access Sewer Media?

[Tron]

Digital nazis taking away internet services.

Soon to be copied in the UK and EU, like every other Chinese policy will be. In the name of health and safety, wellbeing etc.

[Jimmy2Cows]

Re: Digital nazis taking away internet services.

There's a sensible middle ground between opressive state overreach and digital wild west. It's arguable which side of that the UK is on on any given day, but we're never near the middle ground.

The concept of actually doing something, rather than just making noise for political points, is laudable. It's possible to reign in social media's worst traits without going full-on CCP.

[Jimmy2Cows]

Re: Digital nazis taking away internet services.

Oops. Rein in, not reign in. Grievous error, spotted too late.