23 August 2018 — Amidst a clamp down on online content on livestreams, blogs and mobile gaming, Chinese President Xi Jinping declared that the internet must be ‘clean and righteous’. China shut as many as 128,000 websites that contained ‘obscene and other harmful’ information in 2017 as it seeks to maintain its grip over the internet which is popular with China’s youth.

The European Commission consider that social media companies have not done enough to remove illegal and terrorist content from their platforms in a three-month reporting period and will seek to levy harsh fines if content is not removed within an hour…

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