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
Homosexuality in China act was requested by the “Network(Cyber) Security Law.” However, it is unclear which “Network Security Law” Weibo was referring to. In the newest edition of “People's Republic of China Network(Cyber) Security Law” put into effect on June 1, 2017 by the government, media related to pornography is banned, yet the issue of homosexuality is not mentioned. It remains unclear if Weibo’s decision reflects its company’s own discrimination against the LGBTQ community, or if it foreshadows the government’s future policy against this group. Weibo’s announcement led to the anger of China’s LGBTQ community as well as many other Chinese citizens. A