{"id":2415,"date":"2021-08-07T09:37:06","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T07:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/07\/wechats-youth-mode-is-illegal-says-lawsuit-as-china-steps-up-attack-on-tencent\/"},"modified":"2021-08-07T09:37:06","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T07:37:06","slug":"wechats-youth-mode-is-illegal-says-lawsuit-as-china-steps-up-attack-on-tencent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/07\/wechats-youth-mode-is-illegal-says-lawsuit-as-china-steps-up-attack-on-tencent\/","title":{"rendered":"WeChat\u2019s youth mode is illegal, says lawsuit, as China steps up attack on Tencent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The messaging app does not comply with laws protecting children, say  prosecutors, in fresh crackdown on tech firms <\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors in Beijing have initiated a civil lawsuit against a subsidiary of Tencent, saying the \u201cyouth mode\u201d on the company\u2019s popular social messaging app WeChat does not comply with laws protecting minors.<\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2021\/jul\/15\/china-video-game-censorship-tencent-netease-blizzard\">No cults, no politics, no ghouls: how China censors the video game world<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/07\/wechats-youth-mode-is-says-lawsuit-as-china-steps-up-attack-on-tencent\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/efe975b390ac0f10d80e5dd1f6b6427a94e219bd\/0_11_3500_2100\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=16a794e65b0bf0e4afd1951fa63210ae\" title=\"WeChat\u2019s youth mode is illegal, says lawsuit, as China steps up attack on Tencent\" \/>The messaging app does not comply with laws protecting children, say  prosecutors, in fresh crackdown on tech firms<br \/>\nProsecutors in Beijing have initiated a civil lawsuit against a subsidiary of Tencent, saying the \u201cyouth mode\u201d on the company\u2019s popular social messaging app WeChat does not comply with laws protecting minors.<br \/>\n Related: No cults, no politics, no ghouls: how China censors the video game world  Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The messaging app does not comply with laws protecting children, say prosecutors, in fresh crackdown on tech firms Prosecutors in Beijing have initiated a civil lawsuit against a subsidiary of Tencent, saying the \u201cyouth mode\u201d on the company\u2019s popular social messaging app WeChat does not comply with laws protecting minors. Related: No cults, no politics, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/07\/wechats-youth-mode-is-illegal-says-lawsuit-as-china-steps-up-attack-on-tencent\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WeChat\u2019s youth mode is illegal, says lawsuit, as China steps up attack on Tencent<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}