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Representatives from Sina, which also operates
China's most popular microblog Weibo Corp, discussed "the issues
of breaking the law and the recent large quantity of Internet
user complaints" with officials from the Cyberspace
Administration of China (CAC) and its Beijing branch, the
regulator said in a statement on its website.
User complaints about Sina concerned "spreading rumors, terror,
obscenity and pornography, fraud, publicizing cults...
distorting facts, violating social morality and promoting
vulgarity," said the CAC.
Sina declined to comment.
Since President Xi Jinping came to power in early 2013, he has
overseen a broad campaign to bring China's Internet under the
government's control. This includes clamping down on content
seen as destabilizing for the ruling Communist Party, using what
cybersecurity experts say is the world's most sophisticated
censorship mechanism.
CAC will punish Sina to strengthen supervision and management of
news web sites and promote the healthy and orderly development
of the Internet news services, the statement said, citing a CAC
official. The regulator did not specify the punishment.
If Sina fails to reform properly or illegal activity continues
on its platforms, Sina will be severely punished or even have to
halt its online news services, the CAC said.
According to the statement, the Sina representative told the
regulator the company would target the problems, strengthen its
internal oversight and carry out its services in strict
accordance with the law.
(Reporting by Paul Carsten; Editing by Jeremy Laurence)
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