Sunday, April 1, 2012

Mainland microblogging sites Weibo/Tencent suspends Comment function for 3 days

In the recent year, microblogging has replaced blogging and has become the place to hang out for artists from all over HK, Mainland and Taiwan. However, recently there has been a lot of Netizens spreading political rumors and verbal abuse has happened incessantly, which led to a concern within society. This is also an important task for Weibo Management. The two largest microblogging networks Sina Weibo and Tencent Weibo saw this problem, therefore yesterday the two Weibo sites sent out an announcement without prior agreement. The announcement stated with regards to the recent Weibo comments having too many rumors and other illegal messages, creating an unhealthy impact on society. As a centralized process, Weibo/Tencent has decided to temporarily suspend the comment function on Weibo starting from March 31st @ 8am to April 3rd @ 8am.

When 'Comment Giant' Anthony Wong learned Weibo suspended the comment function, he shouted that it's a good thing: "This is a good decision. I already decided to play with it for a year or so, then delete and leave. I just want to share my views with friends, and not with people who want to cause trouble!" He said two months ago, he talked about the election on Weibo, and wrote: "The type of people makes up the type of policies." Some people in Mainland strongly expressed their disapproval. He said: "They thought I was talking about Mainland, and just by that it got all exaggerated. Another time, I wrote I supported spoofs, and out of the blue people said I was against Vincent Zhao. Please go watch the News Magazine, that episode was about the spoofing culture, this is called verbal abuse, it's a mob of people!"

Anthony concluded with three points of perspective: "First, there is some group of people with Schizophrenia, jealous that Hong Kong people going up North to make money; Second, it is them that think they are high class people, living in a high place of virtue, like a sniper controlling others' lives and continuously stirring up disputes. The best they can do is boycott you and your movies; Third, its life threatening too, telling people to be careful, but in fact they are the ones who are the weaklings with no power, but likes to pretend to be Gods." Anthony also stressed he won't be defeated: "As you all should go understand my meaning before going to delete my Weibo, I will find a new way to communicate with my Weibo friends."

Faye Wong caught unprepared

As for Faye Wong, who is also a Weibo addict, was surprised and didn't know about the suspension. Usually she gets over 1,000 comments, but yesterday there was none. At 8am, she said: "I didn't not allow comments, what's the situation? Am I being sensitive?" Later when she learned about the comment suspension, Faye suddenly realized: "Rumors led to comment suspension, haha, well said!"

Joey: No good to harm people

Joey Yung hopes Weibo can have the function to confirm who the person is, because she doesn't want worthless attacks by fictitious people: "Weibo is a place to draw in human relationships, but now it has turned into a place that harms people. That is really not too good, but the majority of the people are friendly!" Charlene Choi admitted Weibo has taken an important role in her life, she said: "I have encountered extreme comments before, and felt unhappy, I hope people can mutually respect each other!" Gillian Chung also shared her unhappy experiences on Weibo, but reminded herself that she needs to control her emotions, and not strike back.

Source: Oriental Daily
Translated by: aZnangel @ AsianEU Forum

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