Xiaodang' s parents, however, are not used to the "active atmosphere" on Tianya, although they also read news on portal websites such as sina.com and check their emails.

"[The] poor pandas will be sent to that dangerous island, " wrote one in a chat room on the popular website Tianya.

Last fall, he was voted China' s most hated male celebrity for the third year in a row on Tianya, one of the country' s biggest online forums.

On the relevant main page at Tianya, the administrator wrote the first comment in red on each comment page to remind netizens.

The court reasoned that given the rapid and uncontrollable spread of information on the Internet, Tianya had acted appropriately in responding after the fact.