China tells internet companies to stop blocking each others' links The Edge Markets


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- A + A BEIJING (Sept 13): China's industry ministry said on Monday it has told the country's internet companies to end their long-standing practice of blocking each other's links on their sites, vowing to take measures against those firms that fail to fall in line. The move, which would put an end to what analysts have called the "walled gardens" of China's giant online firms, is just the latest step in a broad regulatory crackdown by Beijing that has ensnared sectors from technology to education and property. The government's campaign has wiped billions of dollars off the market value...