Report: “China: 30 Million Users Blocked From Popular E-Book Platforms”
From Freemuse:
China’s National Office Against Pornographic and Illegal Publications has blocked three popular e-book platforms over “obscene” content. This means these platforms are suspended from distributing new works, reported Inquirer.
Qutoutiao’s Midu Novels and Bytedance’s Tomato Novel were ordered to stop their updates for three months until 15 October 2019. Jinjiang Literature City, with more than 30 million users, was given a two-week suspension.
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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