China Tech Watchdog Warns Internet Firms Against Blocking Rivals
- The MIIT wants platform services to allow links to rivals
- Beijing has targeted the growing power of Alibaba, Tencent
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China’s top technology regulator warned internet firms on Monday against blocking links to rival services, reaffirming Beijing’s order for online giants from Tencent Holdings Ltd. to ByteDance Ltd. to dismantle walls around their platforms.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has summoned executives from the country’s online platforms to emphasize the need to stop shutting out each other’s services, ministry spokesman Zhao Zhiguo told reporters in Beijing. Companies fail to realize that’s a problem for users, he said without naming specific firms.