Professor Wang Sixin, who specialises in Internet rules and laws at the Communication University of China, welcomed the two-month campaign launched last month, describing it as an urgent and necessary move to clean up cyberspace and help stop the youth from blindly idolising stars.
A total of 1,028 online topics sparking arguments were eliminated from July 24 to July 31, with 1,086 problematic accounts and 3,524 comments involving quarrelling supporters also deleted. Some online platforms could implement technical measures to impose restrictions on minors' use of their services, he suggested.
"They use ugly words, fake claims or uncouth language to attack people in cyberspace, while some were also discovered spending lots of valuable study time and money supporting their idols, infringing on the stars' privacy or even disturbing public order," said Jiang Ying, deputy president of the court.