Company: ZHIHF
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001410578-25-000729
Chunk: 258

Company: Zhihu Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 4
Chunk 258
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 and save relevant records; for producers and operators of official accounts that fail to fulfil their management obligations resulting in circulation of unlawful and detrimental information on the online comment threading, the service providers must take necessary measures to manage such actions, such as giving warnings, deleting relevant information, suspending the function of comment threading until the permanent closure of online comment threading area, restricting account functions, suspending account updates, closing accounts, and prohibiting re-registration, save relevant records, and promptly report to the cyberspace administration authorities. This amended regulation also defines “comment threading services” as services provided by internet websites, applications, and other online platforms of a public opinion nature or with the capacity to mobilize the public, for users to express text, code, emojis, pictures, audio, video, or other information through methods such as comments, responses, private messages, live streaming comments, likes, and so forth.
On September 7, 2017, the CAC promulgated the Administrative Provisions on the Information Services Provided Through Public Accounts of Internet Users, which were last amended on January 22, 2021 and took effect on February 22, 2021. This regulation requires information service platforms for public accounts to, among others, establish and improve a management system for user registration, information content security, content ecology, data security, personal information protection, intellectual property protection, and credit assessment, and establish a monitoring and evaluation mechanism for public accounts to prevent data falsification on account subscriptions and interaction counts.
On December 15, 2019, the CAC promulgated the Provisions on the Ecological Governance of Internet Information Content, which took effect on March 1, 2020 and specifies the content scopes that are encouraged, prohibited, or prevented from producing, reproducing, and publishing. Internet information content producers are required to take measures to prevent and resist the production of content that, among others, uses exaggerated titles that are inconsistent with the content, may incite racism or discrimination against geographic region, and propagates scandals. Internet information content service platforms must fulfill the main responsibility of content management, establish an ecological governance mechanism of the internet information, and improve system for user registration, account management, information publishing review, and emergency response. Internet information content service users, internet information content producers, and internet information content service platforms cannot, through manual or technical means, conduct acts that destroy the internet ecosystem.

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On June 27, 2022, the CAC promulgated the Administrative Provisions on the Account Information