Company: ZHIHF
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001410578-25-000729
Chunk: 259

Company: Zhihu Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 4
Chunk 259
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 of Internet Users, which took effect on August 1, 2022. Internet-based information service providers that provide users with information release services, should provide and disclose the rules for the management of user accounts and platform conventions and enter into service agreements with users. Internet-based information service providers should authenticate the identification information of the users who apply for registration of accounts for production of information content in areas such as economics, education, medical care and health, and justice, and the service providers should require these users to provide relevant documents such as service qualification, professional qualification, and professional background information for verification and add a special label to the accounts that have been verified. Any internet-based information service provider in violation of these provisions should be punished in accordance with the laws and administrative regulations.
On September 9, 2022, the CAC, the MIIT, and the SAMR issued the Administrative Provisions on Internet Pop-up Push Notification Services, which took effect on September 30, 2022. The provisions require that internet pop-up push notification service providers should implement the responsibilities as subjects of information content management and establish and improve management systems for censoring of information content, ecological governance, data security, and personal information protection, and protection of minors.
On November 25, 2022, the CAC, the MIIT, and the Ministry of Public Security jointly issued the Administrative Provisions on Deep Synthesis of Internet Information Services, which took effect on January 10, 2023. According to the provisions, deep synthesis technology refers to any technology that utilizes deep learning, virtual reality, or any other generative or synthetic algorithm to produce text, images, audio, video, virtual scenes, or other network information. The provisions emphasize that deep synthesis service providers, as the primary entities responsible for the information security, should not use deep synthesis services to engage in activities prohibited by laws and regulations.
On June 12, 2024, the CAC and other three authorities jointly promulgated the Provisions on Governance of Cyber Violence Information, which came into effect on August 1, 2024, regulating activities related to cyber violence information within the PRC. Internet information service providers are given primary responsibility for managing Internet content and establishing, maintaining, and continually improving mechanisms for restricting cyberviolence information.
Regulations Relating to Mobile Internet Applications Information Services
In addition to the PRC Telecommunications Regulations and other regulations above, mobile internet applications, or apps, are specially regulated by the Administrative Provisions on Mobile Internet Applications Information Services