BEIJING - Beijing has been on a drive to clean up the Internet to make sure that under-18s in China are better protected.

       It has ordered China's technology giants, such as Tencent and Alibaba, to purge their platforms of soft pornography involving children and to increase efforts to prevent minors from becoming addicted to online gaming.

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