Gambling and travel in crosshairs as China “cleans up” its internet


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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 “clean up” of online content, which is targeting obscenity, pornography, prostitution, violence, fraud, and gambling. In the words of the internet watchdog, they will “strive to create a clear cyberspace.” It’s not precisely clear how Tripadvisor may have fallen foul by this standard, but the leading speculation, in the absence of any explanation from...