{"id":33171,"date":"2021-06-16T19:15:45","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T10:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/16\/china-to-crack-down-on-online-fanclubs-over-bullying-concerns"},"modified":"2021-06-16T19:15:45","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T10:15:45","slug":"china-to-crack-down-on-online-fanclubs-over-bullying-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33171","title":{"rendered":"China to crack down on online fanclubs over bullying concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Operation launches to target fanclub culture that \u2018adversely affects mental health of minors\u2019, says watchdog<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s internet watchdog has launched a crackdown on the country\u2019s \u201cchaotic\u201d online celebrity fanclubs, accusing them of contributing to a culture of abuse and of manipulating public opinion.<\/p>\n<p>In an announcement on Tuesday, the office of the central cyberspace affairs commission said it was launching a two-month special operation targeting fanclub culture, known as <em>fan quan<\/em><em>, <\/em>which it said adversely affected the mental health of children.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/16\/china-to-crack-down-on-online-fanclubs-over-bullying-concerns\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operation launches to target fanclub culture that \u2018adversely affects mental health of minors\u2019, says watchdogChina\u2019s internet watchdog has launched a crackdown on the country\u2019s \u201cchaotic\u201d online celebrity fanclubs, accusing them of contributing to a cult&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,2225,50,236,238,744,235,42,1050],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-celebrity","category-china","category-digital-media","category-media","category-mental-health","category-social-media","category-world-news","category-young-people"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33172,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33171\/revisions\/33172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}