The news demonstrates the origin of the policy “1000 Weibo Supervisors” and its after effects about the complaint on unequal treatments of women’s right to post body pictures. On August 11, 2017, the Cyberspace Administration launched an investigation into the three leading enterprises Tencent, Baidu, and Sina Weibo on whether their platforms had violated the laws to inadequately manage information published by their users. As the conclusion of this investigation illustrated, all ‘the three had violated Article 47 of the Cybersecurity Law by hosting “information of violence and terror, false rumors, pornography, and other information that jeopardizes national security, public safety, and social order.’” Therefore, Sina Weibo then started to recruit its 1000 users to report on illegal and harmful information. As a result, the criticism on this policy and the qualification of those supervisors boomed, and further conflicts were intensified by those young women’s photos labeled to be “pornographic”. Such policy was questioned to be gender inequalities as women “forfeit” the rights to post their images with body exposed, even there is nothing sensitive information. The evidence shared in the article was mainly composed of original users’ comments published on Sina Weibo. According to the quotations, the evidence is needless to say to be credible, also supportive effectively.
Lam, Oiwan. “China’s Sina Weibo Hires 1,000 Supervisors to Censor ‘Harmful Content’—Including Women’s Legs.” Global Voices, 12 October 2017. https://globalvoices.org/2017/10/12/chinas-sina-weibo-hires-1000-supervisors-to-censor-harmful-content-including-womens-legs/