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China strengthens control over social networks

China's Cyberspace Administration issued a new regulation Thursday night, which stipulates that companies in the industry should check the actual identities of members in chat rooms in the online space.
The regulation also provides for increased control over the comments on the network and the establishment of a mechanism that classifies users' credibility.

The regulations will enter into force on October 08, just ten days before the start of the XIX Congress of the PCC, during which will be defined the leadership of the second world economy during the next five years.
Wechat - Chinese equivalent to the WhatsApp text and voice messaging application - has 800 million users, while Weibo - similar to the Twitter instant messaging network - has about 200 million.

Facebook and Twitter are blocked in China.

In recent months, the Cyberspace Administration has banned the spread of rumors about celebrities on social networks and tightened control over what news can be spread.
The Chinese authorities have also launched a campaign against Virtual Proxy Network (VPN) services, a mechanism that allows you to access the Internet through a server located outside China.


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