Recently, the "WeChat Security Center" WeChat public account issued a governance announcement targeting online gambling.
National laws and regulations explicitly prohibit the use of the Internet to engage in gambling activities. Online gambling is not only illegal, but can easily lead to malicious behaviors such as fraud, seriously endangering the online ecological environment and harming the rights and interests of users. The WeChat Security Center stated that the WeChat platform has always maintained a zero-tolerance attitude towards online gambling activities and strictly abides by relevant national laws and regulations as well as platform rules such as the "Tencent WeChat Software License and Service Agreement" and "WeChat Personal Account Usage Specifications", and continues to operate within the platform. Various business scenarios maintain a high-pressure crackdown on online gambling activities. Once relevant behavior is discovered and verified, illegal accounts will be dealt with in a stepped manner depending on the severity, including but not limited to:
◆ Restricting the payment ability of accounts that participate in or organize gambling;
◆ Banning accounts that participate in or organize gambling;
◆ Restrict group functions and block groups on gambling-related WeChat groups.
WeChat Security Center stated that the Spring Festival is approaching, and the WeChat security team will continue to strengthen the comprehensive management of online gambling behaviors to protect WeChat’s healthy and good online ecological environment: Accounts suspected of multiple violations of laws and regulations will be dealt with more severely; For serious gambling activities, we will cooperate with relevant judicial authorities to deal with them in accordance with the law.
Source: WeChat Security Center
