China launches yet another crackdown on social media
(2023/03/13)
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The Cyberspace Administration of China has continued its drive to clean up the internet, on Sunday taking aim at the behaviours of independently operated content producing accounts on sites like Weibo and WeChat, known as “self-media.”
The move is part of Operation Qinglang, launched by the CAC in 2021 to create an online ecosystem with values more aligned to Beijing’s desires. It’s included regulating or banning a wide range of behaviors, ranging from cyberbullying in [1]online fan clubs to [2]curbing livesteamers who use infomercials to seek money from minors, to vaguely defined shows of [3]vulgarity.
The CAC [4]reported earlier this month it had removed 54.3 million pieces of information from the internet in 2022 alone.
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The internet regulator has tackled self-media before. In August 2021, Beijing launched a campaign to prevent citizen journalists and others from misinterpreting financial markets and economic policies.
[6]China blocked 54.3 million items online in 2022, after snitches sent 170 million tips
[7]China wants its youth to stop giving livestreamers money
[8]China orders web operators to spring clean its entire internet
[9]China accelerates drive for scientific self-sufficiency
But now Beijing wants to dive deeper into taming self-media and go beyond cracking down on financial fake news.
The CAC accused of this subset of accounts of spreading rumors, causing malicious speculation, counterfeiting, and in general stirring up netizens' emotions and “tearing society apart.”
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“It is an inevitable requirement to win the online ideological struggle and maintain national security and political security,” [12]said the CAC.
The regulator wants platforms to take more responsibility in managing such accounts and behaviours, fine account-holders who make money from alleged fake news and standardize the management of self-media account
[13]
The CAC said of accounts relying on these naughty behaviors, presumably meaning they do not hold up the ideals of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), “the number of fans should be eliminated, and illegal profit-making... should be resolutely curbed.”
The CCP over the weekend launched a new video outlining its values. The short film, titled “This is me, People’s Republic of China”, has an English language narration and a heroic narrative.
China's latest national propaganda video is titled "This is me, People's Republic of China." Through a first-person female (English-language) narrator, China represents itself as friendly, open, and as owning a vast territory of which not an inch shall be lost. [14]pic.twitter.com/uDWyrxbRvz — Manya Koetse (@manyapan) [15]March 11, 2023
The video is subtitled in both English and Chinese with the English language spoken over it. The narrator declares several ideals including “I am the one who is working earliest. I am the one who leaves last. I am the one who does the least for myself.”
It also states “I am the Chinese Communist Party. I will be with you forever,” and China is a “vast territory, but not an inch shall be lost” - all while depicting nature and city scenes and engineering accomplishments including rocket launches, train systems, ports and satellites. ®
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[1] https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/16/china_cyberbullying_fan_quan_crackdown/
[2] https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/09/china_livestreaming/
[3] https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/27/china_internet_spring_clean/
[4] https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/01/china_54_million_internet_takedowns/
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[14] https://t.co/uDWyrxbRvz
[15] https://twitter.com/manyapan/status/1634676268812599298?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[16] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
The move is part of Operation Qinglang, launched by the CAC in 2021 to create an online ecosystem with values more aligned to Beijing’s desires. It’s included regulating or banning a wide range of behaviors, ranging from cyberbullying in [1]online fan clubs to [2]curbing livesteamers who use infomercials to seek money from minors, to vaguely defined shows of [3]vulgarity.
The CAC [4]reported earlier this month it had removed 54.3 million pieces of information from the internet in 2022 alone.
[5]
The internet regulator has tackled self-media before. In August 2021, Beijing launched a campaign to prevent citizen journalists and others from misinterpreting financial markets and economic policies.
[6]China blocked 54.3 million items online in 2022, after snitches sent 170 million tips
[7]China wants its youth to stop giving livestreamers money
[8]China orders web operators to spring clean its entire internet
[9]China accelerates drive for scientific self-sufficiency
But now Beijing wants to dive deeper into taming self-media and go beyond cracking down on financial fake news.
The CAC accused of this subset of accounts of spreading rumors, causing malicious speculation, counterfeiting, and in general stirring up netizens' emotions and “tearing society apart.”
[10]
[11]
“It is an inevitable requirement to win the online ideological struggle and maintain national security and political security,” [12]said the CAC.
The regulator wants platforms to take more responsibility in managing such accounts and behaviours, fine account-holders who make money from alleged fake news and standardize the management of self-media account
[13]
The CAC said of accounts relying on these naughty behaviors, presumably meaning they do not hold up the ideals of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), “the number of fans should be eliminated, and illegal profit-making... should be resolutely curbed.”
The CCP over the weekend launched a new video outlining its values. The short film, titled “This is me, People’s Republic of China”, has an English language narration and a heroic narrative.
China's latest national propaganda video is titled "This is me, People's Republic of China." Through a first-person female (English-language) narrator, China represents itself as friendly, open, and as owning a vast territory of which not an inch shall be lost. [14]pic.twitter.com/uDWyrxbRvz — Manya Koetse (@manyapan) [15]March 11, 2023
The video is subtitled in both English and Chinese with the English language spoken over it. The narrator declares several ideals including “I am the one who is working earliest. I am the one who leaves last. I am the one who does the least for myself.”
It also states “I am the Chinese Communist Party. I will be with you forever,” and China is a “vast territory, but not an inch shall be lost” - all while depicting nature and city scenes and engineering accomplishments including rocket launches, train systems, ports and satellites. ®
Get our [16]Tech Resources
[1] https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/16/china_cyberbullying_fan_quan_crackdown/
[2] https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/09/china_livestreaming/
[3] https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/27/china_internet_spring_clean/
[4] https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/01/china_54_million_internet_takedowns/
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[6] https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/01/china_54_million_internet_takedowns/
[7] https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/09/china_livestreaming/
[8] https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/27/china_internet_spring_clean/
[9] https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/06/asia_tech_news_roundup/
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[12] http://www.cac.gov.cn/2023-03/12/c_1680256771354020.htm
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[14] https://t.co/uDWyrxbRvz
[15] https://twitter.com/manyapan/status/1634676268812599298?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[16] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
Re: "Hate the sin but love the sinner"
ChoHag
First they came for the social media,
and I did not speak up, because it's a cess-pool.
Re: Social media is a curse on humanity
sabroni
You'll be able to find some scientific research that backs that statement up easily then.
Off you go.
Re: Social media is a curse on humanity
Dan 55
I can watch a livestreamed shooting to back that statement up, there should be another one along in a minute.
Re: Social media is a curse on humanity
localzuk
There have been dozens, if not hundreds, of studies and papers on this topic now. This site has quite a number linked throughout the article - https://childmind.org/article/is-social-media-use-causing-depression/
Hubert Cumberdale
*quiet
Neil Barnes
Shhh!
Lil Endian
Be vewy, vewy qwiet. I'm hunting wabbits...
A rip-off of NVidia's I Am AI
Ken Y-N
This is the only thing I could think of watching that:
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/about-nvidia/i-am-ai/
The voice-over even seemed like it was voiced by a text-to-speech engine.
Potemkine!
" '1984' was not supposed to be an instruction manual"
Lil Endian
But it is a great album.
FirstTangoInParis
Eddie will be wowing them up there
One rule for them ....
FirstTangoInParis
Wondering what the CCP would say if Gary Lineker lived there .... for non-Brits, see here https://news.sky.com/story/the-bbcs-guidelines-on-impartiality-explained-and-do-they-apply-to-lineker-12830830
Re: One rule for them ....
Dan 55
They don't say anything, the person causing the inconvenience [1]just vanishes .
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/19/china-disappeared-high-profile-figures-who-have-gone-missing-during-xi-jinpings-rule
"Hate the sin but love the sinner"
Much as I hate this crack down on free speech by the CCP and they are rather a nasty lot, speech it's a basic human right, I do have to give some props to the CCP for cracking down on vile social media. Social media is a curse on humanity, raising suicide rates, causing depression and basically screwing up lives for the most part, sure some positive aspects there but mostly just a boil on the bum of mankind.
China owns TikTok, they come down hard on it in China ensuring it only carries wholesome messages for the youth, outside China it's TikTok that's just a cesspit of complete shite, you could almost say that policy is deliberate but wash your mouth out for saying such a thing!