{"id":2554,"date":"2014-08-08T18:49:07","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T18:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=2554"},"modified":"2014-08-08T18:49:07","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T18:49:07","slug":"china-tightens-message-app-rules-for-public-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/china-tightens-message-app-rules-for-public-information","title":{"rendered":"China Tightens Message App Rules for Public Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;color: #444444;line-height: 1.7\">By Bloomberg News Aug 7, 2014 9:05 AM ET<\/span><\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s government issued rules that restrict the dissemination of politically related news on instant-<!--more-->messaging applications to only authorized media outlets, the official Xinhua News Agency said.<\/p>\n<p>Rules tightening management of message applications in the world\u2019s biggest Internet market, such as Tencent Holdings Ltd. (700)\u2019s WeChat, are meant to safeguard national security, according to the report. App providers will also be required to implement more stringent rules on real-name registration for users, the state-run news agency said.<\/p>\n<p>China last month blocked messaging applications operated by overseas companies Line Corp. and Kakao Corp. as part of a stepped-up Web-censorship campaign. The message services allow users to communicate with each other through the Internet and are similar to WhatsApp Inc. State interference is one of the primary risks that investors in Chinese Internet stocks such as Tencent and Weibo Corp. (WB) face, according to Cyrus Mewawalla, managing director of London-based CM Research.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Chinese government is ratcheting up its censorship of the Internet,\u201d Mewawalla said in an e-mail today. \u201cThe fate of some of the largest Internet companies is more entwined in politics than ever and that demands investors place higher risk premiums on the sector.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-08-07\/china-tightens-message-app-rules-for-public-information.html\">For detail please visit here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bloomberg News Aug 7, 2014 9:05 AM ET &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/china-tightens-message-app-rules-for-public-information\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,110],"tags":[37,1343,1348,735,736],"views":2458,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2554"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2556,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions\/2556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}