Vicki Zhao Wei. RIP
Mainland China, where no one is allowed to be more popular more inspirational then Xi Jingping and the CCP.
Posted on 08/29/2021 8:40:00 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
For months, Chinese authorities have been cracking down on the country’s powerful internet sector, targeting an array of companies over issues from anti-trust to data security.
Now, online celebrity fan clubs are the latest to feel the heat.
The regime’s top internet regulator, in a bid to rein in what it described as China’s “chaotic” celebrity fan culture, on Aug. 27 barred platforms from ranking celebrities’ popularity and restricted sales of fan merchandise.
Restrictions are now slapped on celebrities’ public relations firms, social media accounts of fan clubs, and entertainment programs, with the Cyberspace Administration of China on Friday highlighting around a dozen behaviors that it considered off-limits.
Platforms are now barred from publishing lists of popular celebrities, and actors and artists will be restricted in how they promote their merchandise to fans.
Fan clubs face a potential shutdown if they spread what the authorities deem as “harmful information”—such as rumors, abusive words, and celebrity scandals, the Friday announcement said.
The measure on Friday was the culmination of a two-month-long campaign that has been gaining pace since June to “rectify” celebrity fan culture, leading to the purging of 150,000 “harmful messages” and over 5,000 accounts and groups it said were rule-breakers.
It also came amid a growing number of celebrity scandals rocking the country.
Police last month arrested Canadian-Chinese pop star, Kris Wu following rape allegations. His fan groups leaped to his defense on social media. Most of these fan accounts, along with Wu’s online accounts, were later shut down.
Earlier this week, the name and details of billionaire actress Vicki Zhao Wei, brand ambassador for Italian fashion company Fendi in China, vanished from the works she starred in for unspecified reasons.
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read an article about this yesterday. One of their female ‘soap’ stars was fined 46million dollars for ‘taxes’ and, businesses were ordered never to hire her again. I think her sin was she had too big a fan base.
RE: I think her sin was she had too big a fan base.
Speaking of huge fan base... Jackie Chan wants to be a CCP member....
Yeah, Chan has went over to the dark side.
Rd later.
“The regime’s top internet regulator, in a bid to rein in what it described as China’s “chaotic” celebrity fan culture, on Aug. 27 barred platforms from ranking celebrities’ popularity and restricted sales of fan merchandise.”
Xi’s girlfriend got downvoted?
Mainland China, where no one is allowed to be more popular more inspirational then Xi Jingping and the CCP.
The horrors!
No more Kanye and Kim???!!
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