Censorship in China the new Internet regulations passed under General Secretary Xi Jinping's administration. These arrests served as an example to the rest of the "Big V's" as well as other Chinese internet users to be careful of what they expressed online; in fact, even five months after these arrests in August, there was a noticeable decrease in the amount of posts and discussions from prominent online figures. On popular microblogging site Weibo, opinion leaders decreased their posts by around 40% from the previous year. By 2015, instances of censored posts from popular Weibo accounts included messages that were only mildly critical of
Weibo (Tang dynasty) Weibo (Tang dynasty) Weibo (; alternatively written Wei–Bo), also known as Tianxiong (), was a province or circuit (, "dào") of the mid to late Tang dynasty. The area was governed from the capital of Weizhou () in modern Daming County, Handan, Hebei, and controlled the southern Hebei and northern Shandong regions. In the post–An Lushan period, Tang Suzong combined Weizhou and Bozhou () under the command of the Weibo Army, and Tian Chengsi became the first "jiedushi" or military governor of Weibo. The Weibo region, ruled autonomously by the Tian family, subsequently became one of the revolting garrisons of