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Administrative Regulations on Micro-blogging Information Services (2018)

微博客信息服务管理规定

Type of laws Departmental rule

Issuing body Cyberspace Administration of China

Promulgating date Feb 02, 2018

Effective date Mar 20, 2018

Validity status Valid

Scope of application Nationwide

Topic(s) Cyber Law/Internet Law Content Regulation

Editor(s) Lin Haibin 林海斌 Xinzhu Li 李欣烛

The Administrative Regulations on Micro-blogging Information Services entered into force on 20 Mar. 2018.

There are 18 articles in total, which aim to supervise the micro-blogging (similar to Twitter, mainly referring to Weibo in China) information services in China. The key points are as follows:

  1. Micro-blogging refers to the follower-based social network services that achieve information dissemination and access mainly in the form of brief text, pictures, videos and the like.
  2. The Cyberspace Administration of China and its local government counterparts are the regulatory authorities in this field.
  3. The micro-blogging service provider (hereinafter the “service provider”) shall authenticate and periodically verify the identity information of its users.
  4. The service provider and its users shall not publish or disseminate illegal content.
  5. If the service provider provides application function with public opinion attribute or social mobilization ability, it shall report to the regulatory authorities for security assessment.

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