Beijing launches fresh crackdown on Internet industry misconduct as Hong Kong tech stocks sink


The six-month campaign will address the ‘tough problems’ of China’s Internet industry, said the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT). Data security and infringement of user rights among problems the MIIT pledges to address. — SCMP

China’s Internet ministry has launched a new nationwide campaign to purge what it deems problems in the Internet industry, which has been battered for months in an almost continuous crackdown from different government bodies.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), one of China’s top government bodies responsible for regulating the tech industry, has begun a six-month campaign to address the “tough problems” of the Internet industry, including disturbing market order, infringing users’ rights, threatening data security and unauthorised Internet connections, the ministry said in a notice published to its website on Monday.

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