After netizens criticized Xi Jinping, China banned a Quora-like app for not censoring enough content

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• China’s Quora-like Q&A app, Zhihu, has been temporarily removed from local app stores.
• Zhihu was accused by China’s cyber watchdog for spreading “illegal information.”
• It’s unknown what information this was, but the order came days after countless posts on China’s plan to scrap presidential term limits were censored on other apps.
• The order was also given just days before China’s national legislature meets to vote on that plan.

Local China Q&A app Zhihu has been temporarily banned from app stores following intense censorship in China over the country’s plan to scrap presidential term limits.

The Quora-like app ran afoul of the Beijing Cyberspace Administration for “lax supervision and the spread of illegal information” and was ordered to be removed from app stores for seven days.

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