A man walking past the booth of Chinese startup Xiaohongshu, which means 'little red book' in Chinese, at the Big Data Expo in Guiyang, China. Chinese apps that host lots of user-generated articles, reviews and videos are frequent targets of the country's Internet authorities, which police the Web for pornographic content, politically sensitive content and fake product reviews. — Reuters
SHANGHAI: Chinese startup Xiaohongshu, which allows users to post product reviews and share shopping experiences, said on Aug 1 it will conduct a self-examination and correct its content after its app was removed from Android stores in China this week.
"Xiaohongshu's app has recently been removed from every major app store," the firm said in a statement on Weibo, China's Twitter-like social media platform.
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A man walking past the booth of Chinese startup Xiaohongshu, which means 'little red book' in Chinese, at the Big Data Expo in Guiyang, China. Chinese apps that host lots of user-generated articles, reviews and videos are frequent targets of the country's Internet authorities, which police the Web for pornographic content, politically sensitive content and fake product reviews. — Reuters
Chinese apps that host lots of user-generated articles, reviews and videos are frequent targets of the country's Internet authorities, which police the web for pornographic content, politically sensitive content and fake product reviews. — Reuters
The icon for Google LLC's Play Store application, center, is displayed on a Huawei Technologies Co. P20 Pro smartphone in an arranged photograph taken in Hong Kong, China, on Monday, May 20, 2019. Top U.S. corporations from chipmakers to Google have frozen the supply of critical software and components to Huawei, complying with a Trump administration crackdown that threatens to choke off China's largest technology company. Photographer: Justin Chin/Bloomberg
