Weibo: the Chinese social network now forces its users to reveal their location

Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, has just implemented a new intrusive measure towards its users. Indeed, the profile of the latter now necessarily displays their position via their IP address. Although it is impossible to prevent this, many claim to be delighted by this novelty. In China, the Internet has a very different face from the one we know in the West. Point of Google, Netflix or YouTube: there, most of the major sites in our country are replaced by local equivalents. Thus, Chinese users join massively on Weibo, a sort of Twitter with 570 million members and to…