China Presses Tech Firms to Police the Internet
Third-annual World Internet Conference aimed at proselytizing China’s view to global audience
China invited global tech executives for a conference this week where it pitched its version of the web. Photo: CCTV
WUZHEN, China—Picture an internet where tech companies are deputized as crime-fighters, where censors keep radical views in check and where governments work together to achieve global order in cyberspace.
That is China’s vision, and its third-annual World Internet Conference that ended Friday was aimed at proselytizing that view to tech executives and government leaders who assembled here from around the world.
China’s efforts...