GUANGZHOU, China — If you had been eager about choosing your nostril or placing underwear over your head whereas livestreaming on WeChat, suppose once more.

Tencent runs WeChat, a messaging app that is used by over a billion people. The app is an integral a part of every day life in China and can be utilized for all the pieces from funds to reserving flights. Last 12 months, Tencent launched a dwell broadcasting function referred to as “Channels.”

In a bid to scrub up the platform, the Chinese expertise large revealed an inventory of dozens of frequent “violations” on its platform which it had discovered by monitoring Channels.

So-called “vulgar” content material is prohibited. This consists of any actions with sexual provocation similar to “seductive lip licking” and focusing the digicam on “sensitive” elements of the physique. Spanking can be prohibited.

Fortune telling, choosing your nostril and placing underwear over your head are additionally not allowed.

Tencent additionally lays out objects of clothes that may’t be worn which incorporates fishnet stockings. Women usually are not allowed to broadcast in only a bikini or wrapped in mattress sheets or bathtub towels, based on Tencent.

Anyone displaying tattoos can even be in violation of WeChat’s guidelines.

Other violations embody speaking about politically delicate content material, permitting minors to host a livestream, and selling content material associated to playing.

Chinese expertise giants are at the moment within the crosshairs of regulators on the earth’s second-largest economic system. Livestreaming is one space that the authorities have been watching intently because it boomed in the course of the coronavirus pandemic.