Posted on 02/05/2021 7:20:28 AM PST by Red Badger
China’s ruling communist party has further tightened its control over speech, information, and thought among the Chinese people, announcing limits on what is allowed on Chinese social media.
The country’s social media platforms in recent days have issued notices to users, requiring them to obtain “Internet News Information Service Licenses” or otherwise be banned from commenting on “politics, economics, the military, diplomacy, and other major news.”
The notices explain that if a user does not have a license, they are advised not to compile, publish, comment and interpret any information on current affairs.
The notices from Sohu and Baidu clearly state that users are now required “not to release such information without approval.” The notices added that the new rules “prohibit the development of such content without permission or beyond permitted scope.”
Sohu’s notice also listed penalties for when the new regulations are violated.
For reposting existing information, the notice said that “unlicensed accounts” spreading prohibited current affairs content will initially be banned for seven days. If they violate the rule for a second time, their account will be suspended for 15 days, followed by a 30 day suspension for the third violation.
If a user violates the reposting ban for a fourth time, their account will be “permanently disabled.”
The penalities are harsher for those sharing original posts. Unlicensed account directly posting information in violation of the rules will be “permanently banned once discovered,” the notice said.
Commentators not affiliated with a state-approved media company have said it’s almost impossible for them to be granted a license, given the long list of unrealistic requirements WeChat, Sohu, and Baidu are demanding on behalf of the authorities.
One criteria, according to the owner of the NetEase account “Tianma Xingwen,” is that personal accounts are not eligible for a license.
They lamented that the new regulations will mean that the future of Chinese social media will “belong to only a very small number of people.”
Ma Xiaolin, a veteran reporter who covered the Iraq war, said on Weibo on Jan. 30, “As a researcher and columnist on international relations, it seems that from now on, I can only talk about eating, drinking, and having fun on social media.”
The CCP’s Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) is behind the push for the new social media restrictions.
During the CAC’s national meeting on Jan.29, the Internet regulation and control agency announced that it would focus its resources on “prominent problems that disrupt the ‘peace and order’ of Internet communications,” including viral topics and videos.
Major internet service providers that own social media platforms, such as Tencent and Sina Weibo, attended the meeting.
Zhuang Rongwen, vice minister of the CCP’s propaganda department and director of the CAC, said at the meeting that it is necessary to “maintain the correct political orientation, public opinion orientation, and value orientation” across all internet platforms, no matter what they are.
The CAC said in a Jan. 31 notice that with the licenses, it is now “focused on rectifying” the situation where the public has had access to unregulated online commentators.
The agency also said that licensed media personalities will still need to follow a “review before posting” policy, implying that they will not be able to discuss politically sensitive views on current affairs topics, including during livestreams.
Ling Yun contributed to the report.
Seems to be the direction the Biden administration is going also. Interesting
Yep, China exists to give us a sneak preview of what is coming here.
What it generally means here is that people are starting to question what they see. If you have ten networks and they all say the same thing....then it’s probably 99-percent fake news.
Looks like they are following in our footsteps...
kinda’ sad really.
Here too!
We are now a wholly-owned subsidiary of some mom-and-pop printing shop outside Shanghai.
New idea for the FCC to push
“their account will be “permanently disabled.”
That’s ChiCom for “a bullet in your neck”.
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Coming soon here under Chairman Jao Bai Den...
The CCP is a Virus.
Related:
Curious Why US News Networks Are Supportive of Chinese Government? Just Look at the Corporate Ownership
https://townhall.com/columnists/bradslager/2020/04/24/curious-why-us-news-networks-are-supportive-of-chinese-government-just-look-at-the-corporate-ownership-n2567504
CNN approves
Was likely passed though Swalwell’s chink handler to the rat leadership.
New suggested topics of discussion include how to cook dog and calisthenics when you’re nailed shut in your house.
China has always been the experimental country to figure out how to control the population, before it was brought to Western societies.
“For reposting existing information, the notice said that “unlicensed accounts” spreading prohibited current affairs content will initially be banned for seven days. If they violate the rule for a second time, their account will be suspended for 15 days, followed by a 30 day suspension for the third violation. “
These guys are really behind the times. They could learn a thing or two about how to cancel and deplatform from FB, Twitter, Google, etc.
SEC. II GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH!
PATRICK HENRY SHOCKED!
Young Christian attorney Patrick Henry saw why a JURY of PEERS is so vital to FREEDOM!
It was March 1775 when he rode into the small town of Culpeper, VA. He was totally shocked
by what he saw! There, in the middle of the town square was a minister tied to a whipping post,
his back laid bare and bloody with the bones of his ribs showing. He had been scourged like
JESUS, with whips laced with metal.
Patrick Henry is quoted as saying: “When they stopped beating him, I could see the bones of his
rib cage. I turned to someone and asked what the man had done to deserve a beating such as
this.”
SCOURGED FOR NOT TAKING A LICENSE!
The reply given him was that the man being scourged was a minister who refused to take a
license. He was one of twelve who were locked in jail because they refused to take a license.
A license often becomes an arbitrary control by the government that makes a crime out of what
ordinarily would not be a crime. IT TURNS A RIGHT INTO A PRIVILEGE!
Three days later they scourged him to death.
This was the incident, which sparked Christian attorney Patrick Henry to write the famous
words which later would become the rallying cry of the Revolution. “What is it that gentlemen
wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price
of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but
as for me, GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH!” Later he made this part of his
famous speech at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Williamsburg, VA.
Yes, look to CCP China for what the Biden Regime intends to do to the former USA.
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