As a mainstream social tool, WeChat's circle of friends and WeChat group functions have become an important platform for people to share their lives and thoughts. However, due to its openness, the content published in the circle of friends and WeChat group may lead to infringement if it is not paid attention to.

Throughout the judicial practice in recent years, with the development of the Internet, groups in social software, including QQ groups and WeChat groups, have become places and tools for some people to commit crimes. Most of them use this group as the group owner to commit various illegal and criminal acts, such as insulting and slandering the reputation of others. Serious crimes include organizing pyramid schemes, extortion, spreading obscene articles, propagating terrorism, etc., which greatly endanger people's lives and property.

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Relevant legal basis

Cyberspace is not a place of extra-legality, and citizens are also constrained in network groups. In the Regulations on the Management of Internet Group Services issued by the National Internet Information Office on September 20 17, the first paragraph of Article 9 stipulates the management responsibilities of group owners:

"Internet group founders and managers should fulfill their group management responsibilities, standardize group network behavior and information release according to laws and regulations, user agreements and platform conventions, and build a civilized and orderly network group space."

It includes two meanings:

First, group owners have the responsibility to abide by the laws and regulations of the country, so that the group can play its role as a communication tool under the legal norms, and should not become a tool for illegal crimes to infringe on the rights of others or even commit criminal acts;

Second, group owners have the corresponding supervision and management rights, such as actively performing their duties when group friends commit illegal or even criminal acts, taking measures such as banning words and kicking out the group to stop the corresponding illegal and criminal acts, and maintaining a harmonious relationship between group friends.