
110,000 social media accounts shut down to 'protect' bored youth in China during winter holidays
Authorities in China's capital say they deleted almost half a million articles
While you were enjoying your holidays, some people were working hard. Nope, not Santa's little helpers – it's China's little censors.
(Maybe they’re not little, but it sounded better that way.)
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The government did not publish the names of the accounts that have been censored, nor did it say which platforms the so-called “self-media” accounts published to. But it did say that it focused on specific types of offenses. These include “distorting policy and going against proper direction,” “distorting the history of the Communist Party of China,” “flaunting wealth and promoting distorted values,” “challenging public order” and the classic one, talking about topics they shouldn't talk about.
The platforms hosting the offending content have also felt the cold grip of the CAC. The office invited Twitter-like Weibo, search engine operator Baidu, China's most popular social platform WeChat and others to talk about managing their content a bit better.

They include “uniting and inspiring the people, resisting harmful thoughts and cultural invasion, safeguarding the cultural rights and interests of minors, purifying the social and cultural environment, and consolidating the ideological positions of grass-roots propaganda.”
The office, which goes by the catchy name of “Clean up the Pornographic, Strike the Illegal” is also sending out volunteers to schools across China to instruct kids on how to report illegal content.
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