{"id":34895,"date":"2021-08-07T12:36:32","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T03:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/07\/wechats-youth-mode-is-says-lawsuit-as-china-steps-up-attack-on-tencent"},"modified":"2021-08-07T12:36:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T03:36:32","slug":"wechats-youth-mode-is-illegal-says-lawsuit-as-china-steps-up-attack-on-tencent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34895","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><\/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 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[50,556,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-chinese-economy","category-technology"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34895","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34896,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34895\/revisions\/34896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}