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Chinese government orders app stores to remove popular app Douban

December 11, 2021
Source: reclaimthenet.org reclaimthenet.org
News Snapshot:
[subscribe to Reclaim The Net.] This week, China banned over 100 apps and services, including Douban, a platform where users share their opinion on music, movies, and books (think IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic). Beijing appears to have banned the platform for hosting opinions critical of the government. Douban has been the subject of controversy multiple times, because of users who are not afraid to share their criticisms of movies, songs, or books with patriotic themes. There have been multiple cases of censorship, and recently Beijing has been closely monitoring the app for allowing fandom communities. There was a recent crackdown...
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