Tencent Weibo and will stop upgrading its micro-blogging service. Tencent Weibo act as an 'open' platform for developers and users to communicate and share data widely. After signing on, developers and users can use the open API to create an application. Through the application, they can obtain information or spread new information. Tencent Weibo may censor discussion of public social interest activities, such as worker or people's strikes. An example was blocking discussion of Foxconn worker's strikes in October, 2012. Tencent Weibo Tencent Weibo is a Chinese microblogging (weibo) website launched by Tencent in April 2010, and is still currently under beta
Internet censorship in China As a result, the English language name of John Oliver (although not the Chinese version) was censored on Weibo and other sites on the Chinese internet. Foreign content providers such as Yahoo!, AOL, and Skype must abide by Chinese government wishes, including having internal content monitors, in order to be able to operate within mainland China. Also, in accordance with mainland Chinese laws, Microsoft began to censor the content of its blog service Windows Live Spaces, arguing that continuing to provide Internet services is more beneficial to the Chinese. Chinese journalist Michael Anti's blog on Windows Live Spaces was censored