According to CNBC, the new laws also require social media platforms like Douyin, Bilibili and Weibo to verify the credentials of creators who comment on such "sensitive" topics, of which expertise can be proven through a degree, license or certification in a certain field.

Interpreting this as "the platform is liable for any bad stuff that a content creator puts out" and not "the government of China will vet every single post/video every person uploads". Which... curious how this will play out. Is it going to lean towards nuking content only by people claiming to be experts and leave people who are expressing opinions alone or what?

Advertisements on medical products, supplements and health foods have also been limited, due to a concern that such foods may be promoted under the guise of educational content.

This is cool and good.

Can't say I agree with the blanket finance ban, considering how many Chinese technocrats and professionals are western educated with their heads full of the most egregious neoclassical nonsense

Sounds like a good way for heterodox Marxians who are more likely to be self-educated to get shafted while Chinese crypto bros can carry on because they have a bullshit decree from the University of Chicago

Nooo not my heckin opportunists!

Liberalism stems from petty-bourgeois selfishness, it places personal interests first and the interests of the revolution second, and this gives rise to ideological, political and organizational liberalism.

People who are liberals look upon the principles of Marxism as abstract dogma. They approve of Marxism, but are not prepared to practice it or to practice it in full; they are not prepared to replace their liberalism by Marxism. These people have their Marxism, but they have their liberalism as well--they talk Marxism but practice liberalism; they apply Marxism to others but liberalism to themselves. They keep both kinds of goods in stock and find a use for each. This is how the minds of certain people work.

Liberalism is a manifestation of opportunism and conflicts fundamentally with Marxism. It is negative and objectively has the effect of helping the enemy; that is why the enemy welcomes its preservation in our midst. Such being its nature, there should be no place for it in the ranks of the revolution.

This is China’s loss. What will China do without Chinese Joe Rogan, Chinese Dave Portnoy, Chinese Liver King, and Chinese Gwyneth Paltrow? Among countless others!

this isnt new you already cant give the public advice about finance unless you are licensed in china to help cut down on people getting defrauded. we have laws like this in the west its just that the cinese government actually enforces them

same with health claims. we just dont enforce that shit in the west because apparently telling your neighbor to give themselves an enema with bleach to treat their ibs is "free speech"

Didn't realise finance was in this.

Kills off most the cryptobro and financial advice influencers completely. The remaining ones that do have degrees will probably not have the protection of "this is not financial advice" if they are professionals expected to show professionalism.

Maybe that's what China will seek to do to all of finance. Proletarianise them by removing their influence and power and busting them down to the same level as other professionals in society with an expectation of a behaviour befitting of a professional position.

Anyone know if there's any significant presence of anti vaxxers in China?

Good.

Influencers are the new journalists and it would be malpractice if there was a whole industry in telling everyone what they want to hear instead of actual facts.

let him cook

Sensible and agreeable.

Liberal headline: "China bolsters the podcast black market with integrity doctrine. Now they will collapse in 5 years."

the maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry