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This is their government acting purely out of self-preservation. These algorithms are extremely vulnerable to state actors sowing discord within a country. China, Russia, Iran, US, Israel, etc. all conduct psyops. Shutting this tech down is a major first step in protecting your country from internal and external cyber psyops. China has been dealing with a ton of domestic problems for the last couple of years, and it's only been getting worse. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/22/china-deals-with-violence-amid-revenge-against-society-attacks
Quasi-enemies like the US can exploit social unrest and stoke the fires, making problems exponentially worse. Other countries do the same thing to the US, which is why it's blown my mind why the intelligence agencies here or even in Europe haven't pushed for similar legislation.
Anyway, regardless of the reasoning behind it, it'd be nice to see these predatory algorithms banned everywhere. I just felt the need to point out that this is very unlikely to be motivated out of some progressive idealism by the Chinese government.