Pro gamer move.

sure, but that's not what this is doing. it doesn't say they'll be held accountable. it just places a high barrier to entry.

i understand the sentiment behind it, but I don't think this will be effective at curtailing disinformation. it would, however, be a very useful tool for controlling online speech. especially with a government that has so much control over its universities.

Yup, as someone who loosely follows streamer drama, this is kinda based.

If we held news accountable for misinformation then fox and all the other fascist networks wouldn’t even exist.

Yeah, I think if it's more about policing the misinformation influencers spread, then I can calm down a bit, although it still makes me nervous to think about the government picking and choosing what a person with a crowd can say.

For now, it's making sure influencers don't spread anti-vax bullshit, but what if tomorrow it's no talking about Palestine?

Even then, medical professionals themselves can fall to propaganda and spread lies, so we can't use a single person as an arbiter of truth.

Yeah I gotta agree with you on this, there's a frankly insane amount of pull these people have in society and as we saw during the pandemic not only did it cause people to endanger their own health, but those of others around them.

There's a lot of nuance to be discussed and Republicans shouldn't be in the room at all when it is, but yeah this is objectively true. We used to have laws regulating the news for a reason.

main focus here should be the word “influencers”

So, anyone: got it.

Sounds like they thought they could just argue on easy mode by putting the burden of proof on you. When you accommodated their request, that blew up their spot. Having no other recourse, they retreated to an insult since there was nothing else for them to do (but they were seething to get the last word, so you got that response).

Good on ya for making the fucker squirm.

Nah, if this happened in the US someone would just set up a diploma mill and rake in the money.

MBA's and nursing degrees come to mind. Is there a group as educated and just as likely to fall for a MLM scam?

Are there plenty of dumb as door nails graduates with millions of followers on social media though? Because this is what this legislation is supposed to target. Basically if Trump was in "Chyna", he'd be in jail already for spewing nonsense non-stop on stuff that he knows nothing about, because he's not actually educated on it.

In China, the level of trust people have in the Government is very high compared to the US and Europe. That is the reason why this policy would work and would have reasonable public support.

In the US or Europe, a policy that seems reasonable but could be exploited by the Government for political control is a bad policy. In China, people have already sort of accepted that the Government is pretty secure in its position so it really doesn't need to suppress speech in roundabout ways; if the intention is to suppress speech then they will be explicit about it by using the words "this threatens state security" or "this is offensive to public morals". The thing about being a secure authoritarian regime with reasonable popular support is that you don't need to come up with pretexts to suppress speech or dissent. You can just say "this threatens our power" and put a stop to it. If the policy states the goal is to stop uninformed people from spewing nonsense on the Internet then people will accept that to be true, and the reality is that it probably is what the goal is.

The issue is our society encourages it. When the most important thing in life is money, people are gonna do shit like this to exploit others. Take away the possibility of profit for grifting people and the incentive to do this drops. Would it completely go away? No, there will always be stupid grifters striving to gain popularity or attention, but I think that without the monetary factor it would be a negligible presence.

Does a degree cost anything in China other than time and effort?

I once worked for a CPA who asked me what a balance sheet was for.

He was from a wealthy Tibetan family dynasty and clearly paid his way into the industry, but who knows why he would choose to do that because he clearly was completely over his head.

We used to call him Michael Scott sans charisma.

I'd imagine the number of people with degrees who are confidently incorrect on the subject of their major is much smaller than those without a formal education.

While I don't agree with China's tactics, something needs to be done about people like Joe Rogan peddling harmful misinformation to millions of people.

Naw come on, China's not known for their extreme degree of control over what they'll allow their citizens to see or post online, that's just wild talk man. They certainly don't have enormous human and technological infrastructures dedicated to making sure that their internet is squeaky-clean and government-approved for all their citizens who they totally trust.

Which is precisely why China's quickly taking the world leadership title away from the US.

Needing the Chinese government's blessing of your online activities, is, I totally agree, very un-American.

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