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 313 million monthly active users and 139 million daily active users; In combination with the critical time nodes for the development of Weibo, let us tentatively divide the growth of Weibo from its birth into three stages, namely; On 9 April 2013, Alibaba Group announced that it would acquire 18 percent of Sina Weibo for $586 million, with an option to buy up to 30 percent in the future. When Sina Weibo went to NASDAQ, Alibaba exercised the option. Now Alibaba owns 32 percent of Sina Weibo. According to iResearch's report on 30 March 2011, Sina Weibo had 56.5% of