China has introduced a new measure to combat misinformation, requiring influencers sharing information on sensitive topics to hold a degree in that area.
The rule, which came into effect on 25 October under the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), is reportedly aimed at reducing online misinformation and protecting social media users from potentially harmful advice or guidance.
Influencers discussing subjects such as medicine, law, education, or finance must provide proof of their expertise, whether through a professional licence or degree. Platforms including Douyin (China’s version of TikTok), Bilibili, and Weibo are tasked with verifying these credentials.
The CAC has also banned advertising for medical products and services, such as health foods and supplements, in an effort to curb promotions disguised as educational content.
So you’re saying I can’t continue promoting dick pills that might cause people’s organs to boil? 
In the future you’ll have to have a degree in Marxism Leninism before you can make comments on Hexbear.
Can I be kept around as entertainment? C’mon, we’re all libs here!
Tbf, once the whole world is red, leftist spaces only available to members of ML parties would probably be a good idea. Doing that to any primarily Western leftist space today, though, would immediately kill off the entire space. Because let’s be real, functional party institutions and theory education is just Not A Thing in the West.
Don’t worry I’m in DSA so I’m qualified
No more excuses for not reading theory
This is the way medical subreddits are run and I like it a lot. You prove your credentials to the mods, they’re tagged next to your name, and if a thread becomes something politically/professionally relevant it’s restricted to people with tags. The result is that those threads typically have good comment sections without most of the typical reddit bullshit. They aren’t stuck re-justifying germ theory to a 10th century peasant with a smartphone or sorting through spam/troll comments.
Absolutely based.
“I’m all for free speech, but the self-proclaimed health gurus are causing so much damage and honestly need some regulation so I’m for this regulation,” one user wrote. “You can’t practice medicine, psychology, physio etc, without a license, so I’m not sure why they were allowed to ‘practice online’ in the first place.”
This user gets it.
I’m really torn here between “this is unbelievably based and would do incalculable good if applied worldwide, and in fact if this were done in the U.S. 20 years ago we’d be living in an entirely different future” and being big butt mad because I have a lot of opinions and hate being shut up. Also even though i’m just a biology degree dropout that doesn’t mean I know nothin, yknow
i’m not sure how much of a difference it would make over here, given that higher education is expensive you’d just see a different, nerdier flavor of bougie propaganda
also the fact that college is liberal (No No The Other Liberal) indoctrination
Common China W
I. NO INVESTIGATION, NO RIGHT TO SPEAK
Unless you have investigated a problem, you will be deprived of the right to speak on it. Isn’t that too harsh? Not in the least. When you have not probed into a problem, into the present facts and its past history, and know nothing of its essentials, whatever you say about it will undoubtedly be nonsense. Talking nonsense solves no problems, as everyone knows, so why is it unjust to deprive you of the right to speak? Quite a few comrades always keep their eyes shut and talk nonsense, and for a Communist that is disgraceful. How can a Communist keep his eyes shut and talk nonsense?
It won’t do!
It won’t do!
You must investigate!
You must not talk nonsense!
