Gambling and travel in crosshairs as China ࢀœcleans upࢀ its internet

The Cyberspace Administration of China has removed 105 mobile apps that it considers to be illegal, including a surprise crackdown on US travel giant Tripadvisor. Chinese regulators indicated that the apps they removed were the first of many that would be taken down in a wide-ranging ࢀœclean upࢀ of online content, which is targeting obscenity, pornography, prostitution, violence, fraud, and gambling. In the words of the internet watchdog, they will ࢀœstrive to create a clear cyberspace.ࢀ Itࢀ™s not precisely clear how Tripadvisor may have fallen foul by this standard, but the leading speculation, in the absence of any explanation from…