China revises rules to regulate online comments
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New regulations of comments on social media platforms will take effect on December 15.
Highlights
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Social media and web video platforms must approve all news-related comments before they go online.
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Comments include "Thumb up" and real-time comments that appear on top of a video
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Online platforms should be equipped with content moderation teams which can match the scale of the service.
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For netizen who publish illegal or harmful content, public accounts operators should take actions according to law and user agreements, like to give warnigns, refuse to publish, delete the content, restrict account's functions, suspend account, close account, ban on new account registration and keep relevant records.
If social media platform operators fails to fulfil the management obligation which result in harmful content distributed, measures will be taken according to law, like to giver warnings, delete content, suspend comments function, close comments function permanently, restrit accounts' functions, suspend accounts, close accounts, ban on new account registration and report illegal and undesirable information to the regulator.
Long press the QR code below to readl the full content of the regulations. It is in Chinese, but you can find the "Translate Full Text" function on top of the page.