China To Question Apple About Live-Streaming Apps On App Store That Violate Internet Regulations (theguardian.com) 31
Three Chinese government agencies are planning to tell Apple to "tighten up checks" on live-streaming software offered on its app store, which can be used to violate internet regulation in the country. "Law enforcement officers had already met with Apple representatives over live-streaming services, [state news agency Xinhua reported], but did not provide details of the meetings," reports The Guardian. From the report: The inquiry appears to be focused on third-party apps available for download through Apple's online marketplace. The company did not respond to requests for comment. China operates the world's largest internet censorship regime, blocking a host of foreign websites including Google, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, but the authorities have struggled to control an explosion in popularity of live-streaming video apps. As part of the inquiry into live-streaming, three Chinese websites -- toutiao.com, huoshanzhibo.com and huajiao.com -- were already found to have violated internet regulations, and had broadcast content that violated Chinese law, including providing "pornographic content," the Xinhua report said. Pornography is banned in China. The three sites were told to increase oversight of live-broadcasting services, user registration and "the handling of tips-offs." Two of the websites, huoshanzhibo.com and huajiao.com, were under formal investigation and may have their cases transferred to the police for criminal prosecutions, the Xinhua report said. Casting a wide net, the regulations state that apps cannot "engage in activities prohibited by laws and regulations such as endangering national security, disrupting social order and violating the legitimate rights and interests of others."
apple needs to take a stand and say we will do wha (Score:1)
apple needs to take a stand and say we will do what we want or we will pull the jobs out of china. Or they can take there pro china ideas and let trump put them in there place. USA! USA! USA!
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ha ha ha hahaaaaaa!!!
Not a single chance. Apple only ACTS like they give a crap to sucker their fan base. In the end, they are a business like every other. China's history is not some great mystery, they KNOW what they are getting into because doing business in China means getting directly into bed with the Chinese Government.
Apple, just like every other business in China will become nothing more than proxy henchmen of the government that will profile, spy on, and rat out citizens using their products as
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They can't. Most their components are made in China. China can shut Apple down...
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Users need to take a stand and say they'll only use operating systems where the user decides what applications they can or can't run.
It is absurd that post-1975 some people are still hostage to IBM -- err, I mean -- Apple.
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They have a point on that last bit, but not in a good way.
Anyway, no, free trade might be able to open china up. Military threats and protectionist policies are only going to backfire. Hoping corporations, the god of christi
Hypocrites (Score:2, Informative)
Pornography is illegal there, as is having a mistresses. But nearly every leader here does it.
Illegal is so many things in China, but if you have money, just pay the right person, and you're free to do whatever the fuck you want.
Poor Chinese. What a pathetic shithole of a country. And unfortunately they are trying to destroy the rest of Asia to promote their corrupt politics and erase all their bad histories (also have erased Tienanmen square event, cultural revolution, and so on).
- Angry Hong Konger
violating the legitimate rights and interests of o (Score:1)
"violating the legitimate rights and interests of others."
Thats pretty much the entire rule of the CCP, summed up in a single sentence, isn't it?
Angry Hong Konger
Strengthening a Dictatorship (Score:2)
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China doesn't pretend to be a democracy, at least in the US sense; I suspect they may simply be more honest than America in that respect, because although you guys have the big reality show and the lofty speeches, you don't have democracy. I think you know it too - it makes little difference whether your president is Democrat or Republican, because they still have to obey the big money.
The Chinese government have been very clever and deserve all they have achieved, in my opinion. It is more than a bit rich
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Name one good thing china has done other than produce cheap labor?
How far back do you want to go? You do know they invented things like paper, gun-powder, silk spinning and -weaving, porcelain, the magnetic compass and of course the famous Chinese Remainder Theorem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_remainder_theorem).
But in modern times: their space program, just to mention one obvious thing; unlike America, they take it seriously and work methodically and constructively towards open-ended goals - that last part is important, because it means they are not just out to
Porn or free Political views (Score:2)
I wonder which worries the Chinese authorities the most ?
Human Sexual Response sang it best (Score:2)
Ball as much as we do
'Cause their cultural revolution has shown
There are more important
Things to see to
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How many more years? (Score:2)
App stores are evil (Score:4)
This is a great example of what happens when hardware and OS vendors control software your allowed to use.
Of course China is going to leverage this to get their way as will everyone else globally with sufficient financial or political interest. When you allow so much power to be aggregated into the hands of so few this is the natural predictable result.
Being pedantic (Score:2)
While I realise the popular press is not technically competent to understand their error I do expect better from stuff published on Slashdot where I would hope people actually care about the
What really happened (Score:1)