BEIJING, Sept. 7 (Xinhua) -- Administrators of online groups in China should manage their groups properly, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said Thursday.
According to new regulations on online groups released by the CAC on Thursday, group administrators should regulate the conduct of their group members and the information posted in groups in accordance with the law, user agreements and conventions.
Providers of information services should fulfill their responsibility to manage online information, and should have professional and technical capability conforming to the scale of their services, the regulations read.
Service providers should verify the real identities of group members, and set up a credibility rating system, while taking measures to protect users' personal information.
While online groups have made people's work and lives easier, some service providers and administrators have failed to fulfill their duties, allowing obscenity, violence, fraud, etc. to spread, the CAC said.
On Tuesday, a man from east China's Anhui Province was given a 5-day administrative detention for using abusive language toward the local police in a group on WeChat, China's most popular instant massaging app.
