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Regulator warns internet firms against blocking rivals
    2021-09-14  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

THE country’s top technology regulator warned internet firms yesterday against blocking links to rival services, calling on online giants to dismantle walls around their platforms.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has summoned executives from the country’s online platforms to emphasize the need to stop shutting out each other’s services, ministry spokesman Zhao Zhiguo told reporters in Beijing.

This is part of a special six-month campaign launched in July to regulate the internet industry by tackling problems such as market order disruption, infringement of user rights and data security threat.

“Ensuring that legal web links can be accessed normally is a basic requirement for the development of the internet industry. Limiting identification, analysis and normal access of web links without proper reason has affected user experience, damaged users rights and disrupted market order,” said Zhao.

Zhao said the ministry chose to adopt measures such as administrative guidance because some internet companies were failing to ensure compliance even during the self-inspection and rectification period. In this way, companies can better understand that interconnection is an inevitable choice for the high-quality development of the internet industry, he added.

Enterprises are required to follow the rectification requirements and solve link blocking issues in a phase-wise manner, he said, adding that the ministry will deal with the companies lagging behind in accordance with laws and regulations.

Tencent said it firmly supported the ministry’s decision and would implement it in phases and steps, according to the Securities Times newspaper.(SD-Agencies)

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