Culture Ministry Probes Live Web Shows over Porn, Violence Worries

(Beijing) – The Ministry of Culture is investigating popular live broadcast websites that are suspected of hosting videos containing violence and pornography.

Several websites, including Douyu TV, Huya.com and Yy.com, are being probed for "allegedly providing content that contains pornography or violence and encourages viewers to break laws and harms social morality," the ministry said in a statement on its website on April 14.