The internet must be “clean and righteous” and vulgar content must be resisted in the field of culture, Chinese President Xi Jinping told a meeting of senior propaganda officials, state media said on Wednesday.
The government has been tightening controls over internet content as part of what it says are efforts to maintain social stability, taking on “vulgar” and pornographic content as well as the unauthorized dissemination of news.
The moves come amid a broader clamp-down targeting online content from livestreams and blogs to mobile gaming, as the country’s leaders look to tighten their grip over a huge and diverse cultural scene online popular with China’s youth....MORE
And from The Independent:
'I just literally got shown a bunch of happy cartoon characters dancing on my mom's grave,' the Facebook user said
Facebook has once again stuck its algorithmic foot in it, after a user revealed the social network featured a dancing cartoon on a picture of the grave of his mother.
Comic book writer Patrick Gerard shared an image of a still from Facebook's 'share a memory' video, showing a cartoon of a woman standing on a grave.
"I just literally got shown a bunch of happy cartoon characters dancing on my mom's grave," Mr Gerard wrote on Twitter, together with an emoji of someone holding their head in their hand.
The animation was presumably automatically triggered by Facebook's algorithm due to the number of 'love' reactions the picture received when it was posted, as it was captioned: "Most loved photo from 2016."
In a series of follow-up tweets, Mr Gerard said: "If she were alive and this happened to somebody else, I guarantee she and I would spend 45 minutes talking about it. We tended to dissect ghastly business practices."...MORE
