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[–] 32 points 6 months ago (5 children)

China recently decimated their (previously thriving) influencer ecosystem, simply by requiring that health influencers have documented health education, financial influencers have finance education, etc… China implemented the rule, and immediately banned like ~95% of all their health influencers. The rule targets both individual influencers and the platforms that host them. And no platform wants to stick their neck out and eat fines for some random influencer. So influencers who didn’t have documented education got banned basically overnight.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    IDK if China is really a great example here, considering how many Chinese doctors will still tell you that drinking cold water is bad for you, and garlic makes people horny.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    That’s the funny thing about medicine… Lots of medical advice is largely determined by where you live. In America, doctors tell pregnant women to avoid eating too much fish. In Japan, doctors tell pregnant women to eat more fish.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    they still do that, and using endangered animals and plants. one example is the cordyceps that affect caterpillars in the steppes, they harvested so much that it so much that they couldnt sustain the demand, because its a complex lifecycle for the fungi and caterpillar.

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