SpaceWar.com reports: “Chinese leader Xi Jinping vowed to ‘resolutely crack down’ on online misconduct and foster a ‘clean’ cyberspace, state media reported Saturday, after authorities recently penalised social media companies for their content.

Beijing requires social media companies to moderate content on their platforms, with posts strictly controlled to avoid anything deemed to be too subversive, vulgar, pornographic or generally harmful from circulating.

China’s top internet regulator said in September it would take action against ByteDance-owned news app Jinri Toutiao and Alibaba’s internet browser company UCWeb for allegedly displaying harmful content.

That same month, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) announced a two-month campaign aiming ‘to regulate the malicious incitement of conflict and the promotion of violence and vicious currents’ across social media.

State news agency Xinhua on Saturday quoted Xi as vowing to foster ‘a clean and upright cyberspace’ at a communist party meeting held Friday.

Xi said online misconduct ‘pollutes social ethos’, Xinhua reported, without giving details on what specific content the president was referring to…”