As the Party Congress is approaching, the Chinese government has issued a series of law to control over groups chat and public accounts in order to maintain a safe online environment.

The law applies to social media apps such as WeChat, Alipay Chat, Baidu Blog, Sina’s Weibo (like twitter) and other social media platforms.

Here are some major topics that you’d better not to mention on your WeChat.

1. Politically sensitive content
2. Rumors
3. Internal memos [from the Chinese Communist Party and government units] 4. Content that is vulgar, pornographic, violent or shows drug-related criminal acts
5. News from Hong Kong and Macau that has not been reported by official media outlets
6. Military data
7. State secrets
8. Videos from anonymous sources that insult or destroy police’s reputation or appear to be fabricated
9. Other illegal information that violates laws or regulations

 

Once you against the law, there will be some punishment, such as deduct user’s credit, be listed on the blacklists. As for the admins of the group chats, they also need to take the responsibility.

It was reported that the police crack a WeChat gambling group. The suspicions used “red envelope” function to gamble. In one month, they received 40,000 RMB.

In one case that a man in Jiangxi Province use WeChat to prostitute and got arrested.

Another case is a couple were under arrested in Shandong just because they mentioned they will bomb Tiananmen Square and Zhongnanhai

It’s unclear in these cases whether the group chats were monitored by users, the platforms themselves, or both, but keep in mind, big brother is watching you.

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