China's National Radio and Television Administration released a caller "classified and tiered review" strategy to tighten censorship connected microdramas connected Feb. 5.
Any microdrama themed astatine "politics, nationalist security, United Front, diplomacy, ethnicity" volition beryllium intimately and straight scrutinized by the regulator. Most streaming platforms, required to negociate the contented themselves, volition inactive beryllium prohibited from distributing oregon promoting microdramas, unlicensed without a registration number.
The latest argumentation runs contrary to the Chinese government's efforts since aboriginal past twelvemonth to beforehand the microdrama industry. Why is determination a crisp crook now? How volition the regulator censor microdramas with delicate themes? How volition the Chinese assemblage respond to the tightened censorship?
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