China News Service, December 14th. According to the official WeChat news of the National Cyberspace Administration of China, the head of the National Internet Information Office recently interviewed the main person in charge and editor-in-chief of Sina Weibo, regarding the recent occurrence of laws and regulations on Sina Weibo and its accounts. The circumstances of the prohibited information being published or transmitted are serious. According to the "Network Security Law of the People's Republic of China", "The Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Minors," and other laws and regulations, they are ordered to rectify immediately and deal with relevant persons seriously.
The Beijing Municipal Internet Information Office imposed a total fine of 3 million yuan on Sina Weibo operator Beijing Weimeng Chuangke Network Technology Co., Ltd. according to law.
From January to November 2021, the National Internet Information Office instructed the Beijing Internet Information Office to impose 44 disposal penalties on Sina Weibo and fined it a maximum of 500,000 yuan for multiple times, for a total of 14.3 million yuan.
The person in charge of the National Internet Information Office emphasized that website platforms should earnestly perform their main responsibilities, improve information security management systems such as information release review, public information inspections, emergency response, etc., strengthen the management of information released by their users, and must not provide a dissemination platform for illegal information .
The National Internet Information Office will insist on managing the network in accordance with the law, further strengthening supervision, management and law enforcement, consolidating the main responsibility of the website platform to run the network in accordance with the law, protecting the legitimate rights and interests of the people, and maintaining a clear sky in the cyberspace.