China has welcomed the news that internet giants are clamping down on ‘fake news’, and have offered advice on how to implement internet censorship. Chinese officials claims that the latest fake news crisis is a justification for Western governments to follow China’s lead on punishing publishers online with far more punitive measures that the ones currently being discussed. Theregister.co.uk reports: Ren Xianling, No.2 at the Cyberspace Administration of China, said internet users posting false stories should be punished. Mr Ren advised “using identification systems for netizens who post fake news and rumors, so they could ‘reward and punish’ them,” Reuters reports. He was speaking at the third annual World Internet Conference, with Western technology companies including Microsoft and Qualcomm in attendance. China’s top internet companies seem eager to help. The Government line was bolstered by Chinese companies, Reuters notes. TenCent chairman Ma Huateng seemingly attributing Trump’s victory to insufficient internet speech regulation. Social media rumours have been a concern for China’s government for some time. In July, the Government prevented news organisations citing news on social media without approval. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg rejected the claims in a Facebook post at the weekend. The proposition that “fake news” may have [...]
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