In the last decade, it was an era of barbaric growth of the Internet industry, during which there were many corporate giants that could affect the pattern of the domestic Internet market. However, in the new decade of the Internet industry, with the arrival of traffic bottlenecks, these giants who had high hopes did not assume their due social responsibilities, but in order to continue to consolidate their market position, they played monopolies and other illegal tricks.
In order to optimize the market environment, in the past two years, a large-scale anti-monopoly and special rectification wave of many mainstream APPS have been set off in China, of which Ali and Meituan have been fined 18.3 billion and 3.4 billion yuan respectively, and many non-compliant enterprises such as Didi Chuxing have been investigated by relevant departments.
When many people thought that this wave was about to pass, they did not expect that this was just the beginning, and this time it was Tencent, the "hegemon" of the social field, who was "targeted".
On November 24, it was reported that in the special rectification process of "APP infringing on user rights and interests" carried out by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Ma Huateng's Tencent company was publicly "named", and as many as 9 app under Tencent had serious violations, which ran counter to the development of information industry norms.
What Ma Huateng did not expect was that the relevant departments "named" Tencent this time not only walked through the motions to make other peers take a warning, but moved the real thing!
It is reported that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has made a decision to require Tencent to suspend the update of all its APP, including the upcoming release, which needs to be submitted to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology for review and evaluation, and confirm that it meets the regulations and has no problems before it can be listed.
You know, Tencent's APP categories cover social, games, music, payment and many other fields, and the volume is huge, such as WeChat, the daily active volume has exceeded 1.2 billion! In the Internet information age, once these apps have security problems, the consequences will be terrible.
However, given the degree of binding between Tencent's app and users, there is no way to remove all these apps at once, otherwise it will bring inconvenience to the daily life of more than one billion users. It is also for this reason that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has made a transitional guiding measure: ordering a moratorium.
In fact, Tencent's APP is also expected to be stopped and rectified, after all, whether it is music software or QQ, WeChat has the problem of obtaining user personal information data such as calls, recordings, and contacts from users, and Tencent's other ace "game business" in addition to social networking is also the same.
More importantly, Tencent games have been controversial, and have been accused by the media of being "spiritual opium", and countless parents are disgusted with the game to the extreme, but there is no way. It is also for this reason that Tencent launched a strict anti-addiction system some time ago.
Therefore, from this point of view, the constraints of relevant departments are still very useful, and the special "care" for Tencent is of great significance, which not only standardizes the environment of the Internet information industry, but also improves the "stubborn diseases" that have existed for many years on WeChat and QQ; at the same time, the legitimate rights and interests of users are protected.
For Tencent, it may be time to take the initiative to make changes, and the suspension of all its APP reviews is enough to prove the problem. If you can't lead by example to drive the development of the Internet industry, if you continue to go your own way, the end can be imagined, as the People's Daily said, in China, there is no so-called "big but not falling".