Explicit dating

“It’s enough to make me and my friends boycott the [Alipay] payments service.” Ant Financial has recently sought to increase its international footprint, planning to replicate the Alipay model in Thailand through a tie-up with Thai payment firm Ascend announced on Nov. Alipay is currently China’s top online wallet service, with over 400 million local users.

The criticism comes as the Chinese government ramps up its censorship campaign against content deemed harmful to the national psyche, including pornography and violent videogames.

BEIJING (Reuters) - The head of Ant Financial Services Group, the payment affiliate of Alibaba Holdings Ltd, apologized on Tuesday following backlash from Chinese netizens over a social feature in the company’s payment app that critics say enabled a sexually explicit dating service.

In an internal letter reviewed by Reuters, Chairwoman Lucy Peng said the company had removed a group within the Alipay app’s new social feature “circles”, including a group called “schoolyard diary” which drew intense fire from Chinese users after its launch on Nov. “These past two days have the most difficult since I had joined Alipay 7 years ago,” said Peng, who apologized to users and promised to clamp down on illicit content on the platform.

At a summit organized by China’s top internet regulator earlier this month, officials called on tech firms and media outlets to clamp down on fake news and immoral content.

Earlier this month the same regulator formalized rules banning content deemed offensive on Chinese social video streaming sites.

The social group, which allowed only female users to post images publicly, blocked onlookers from commenting or contacting the women unless they had a high enough credit rating as determined by Ant Financial’s data-backed rating system, Sesame Credit.

“It’s like a brothel,” protested one Alipay user on Chinese Twitter-like social media service Weibo.

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