China: the government blocks the update of the apps of the giant Tencent

26 November 20212 years ago babelfish

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China has notified that the nine apps linked to the Tencent group have violated the regulations and ordered all of the company's apps to stop updating them to accept inspections by the technical team of the Ministry. Experts believe that this time the authorities have launched a new round of "net cleaning" operations to regain the position of public opinion.

The breach report claims that Tencent has "violated the relevant 2021 information and communications industry requirements for the rectification of ethics." This has prompted the ministry to take direct measures to ensure that the new apps, which are being updated, are at the level of its standards. After all, the only interpreter of citizens' interests in China is the ministry.

Commentator Cai Shenkun believes that the purpose of these rules is to condition platforms so that they block or condition content that is not acceptable to the government and carefully check the data of the users who come to collect:

“In China, the channels for people to get information go through the WeChat platform. The information that passes through WeChat has more influence on the public than that of CCTV TV or the "People's Daily". In these circumstances it is obvious that the action taken by Tencent has the purpose of influencing public opinion ”.

Tencent could not help but bend its head and adapt to the new course, publicly stating on October 24 that it will adapt its apps to the requests of the ministry. After all, what can you do, given that the alternative is to close and have your Apps deleted? Instead, these appear to be well present in Chinese stores.

So public opinion will be directly affected, even with very sophisticated artificial intelligence tools, by the government. The danger of modern communication technologies is that on the one hand it is not enough to turn them off, like the TV, and that they personalize messages in an extreme way.

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This is a machine translation of a post published on Scenari Economici at the URL https://scenarieconomici.it/cina-oil-governo-blocca-laggiornamento-delle-app-del-colosso-tencent/ on Fri, 26 Nov 2021 09:30:16 +0000.