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
Sina Weibo of Weibo's fully diluted and diluted total shares. The Timeline of Sina Weibo: The First stage: Starting and breaking through (August 2009 - October 2011) The Second stage: The turning point (October 2011 - first half of 2014) The Third stage: Glow the second spring (second half of 2014 - first half of 2017) In August 2009, Sina Weibo was launched; In early 2010, launched the API open platform; In October 2010, launched China's first small talk contest; In November 2010, sina micro-group began to test; In January 2012, the new feature "quiet attention" went online; In January 2013, the