Qualification standards needed for livestream hosts in China to curb vulgar content: Experts

BEIJING - Internet and legal professionals are calling for Chinese authorities to classify livestreaming hosts and clarify the qualifications needed in order to reduce vulgar content.

The problematic hosts and platforms have received administrative punishment, such as being blacklisted and barred from updating for a period of time, the administration said in a statement released last month."I don't think online vulgarity can be solved only in this way, especially when the industry is growing rapidly," said Professor Wang Sixin, who specialises in internet rules and laws at Communication University of China.

"That's why the vulgar content repeatedly appears or is hard to clean up, until it's reported to the cyberspace administration," he noted. Mr Zhu Wei, deputy director of the Communication Law Research Centre at China University of Political Science and Law, agreed. "For example, a host, I think, should be aware of livestreaming platform rules issued by the administration and should not have a criminal record."

"In other words, we need to manage hosts according to different levels, imposing viewer limits on problematic ones and providing more development space for those with high-quality content.

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