China cracks down on video streaming

ON THE the evening of June 17th nearly 10,000 young people packed a flying-saucer-shaped theatre by the Huangpu river that flows through Shanghai. They had come to watch a performance by Luo Tianyi, a singing hologram of a young woman—China’s most popular virtual star. More than 1m people also watched the show live on AcFun, a video-streaming platform much loved by enthusiasts of Japanese anime, the cartoon genre to which Ms Luo belongs. AcFun may now be wondering whether that was its live-streaming swansong. The government is not a fan of such broadcasting.

Only five days after the concert, China’s television and film watchdog asked local authorities to shut down video- and audio-streaming services on AcFun as well as Sina Weibo, a social-media platform, and iFeng, a news website. It accused the firms of not obtaining licences that are required for broadcasting through the internet. It also accused them of streaming news and current-affairs shows...Continue reading

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