[Epoch Times News on August 12, 2021](Epoch Times reporter Fang Xiao reported) Recently, the CCP issued a notice stating that it is strictly forbidden to play karaoke music in song and dance entertainment venues that contain “endangering national unity, inciting national hatred, and violating national religions.” Policy” and other content. The CCP’s strict censorship of OK tracks triggered a backlash in public opinion, and some netizens were sore: The Cultural Revolution is here again, entering the era of red songs, are we North Korea?
The Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Communist Party of China issued a notice on the “Interim Regulations on the Management of Karaoke Music Content in Singing, Dance and Entertainment Places” written on July 26 on August 10. The notice stated that the administrative department of culture and tourism is responsible for the supervision and management of karaoke music content in singing and dancing entertainment venues. The content provider of the song-on-demand system and the singing and dancing entertainment venues are responsible for the self-examination of karaoke music content in the singing and dancing entertainment venues.
The Ministry of Culture and Tourism is responsible for establishing a national karaoke music content review expert group, and establishing a national karaoke music repertoire list system. In the “content self-examination” part, the notice emphasized that it is strictly forbidden to contain content such as “endangering national unity, inciting ethnic hatred, and violating national religious policies” in karaoke music repertoire played in singing and dancing entertainment venues. The ban will be implemented on October 1.
In response to this news, the British newspaper The Independent reported that the new regulations issued by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Chinese Communist Party “further suppress freedom of speech.”
The report pointed out that this is not the first time that the CCP has banned songs played in karaoke venues. In 2018, the CCP government issued a ban on 6,000 songs in the name of “involving copyright infringement.” By banning 100 tracks.
Xinhua News Agency quoted the person in charge of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism as saying that there are nearly 50,000 singing and dancing entertainment venues across the country, and the basic music library of the song-on-demand system of singing and dancing entertainment venues has more than 100,000 songs.
The new regulations also stated that if the cultural and tourism administrative department finds that the karaoke music provided by the song-on-demand system content provider to the singing and dancing entertainment venues contains “illegal” content, it can warn and stop it through administrative guidance methods such as interviews.
Radio Free Asia reported that the CCP has deepened ideological control among the people, and even the karaoke for leisure and entertainment of grassroots people is not immune. Ma Jian, the author of the “Chinese Dream” and the British Chinese-American writer who once wrote the Orwellian prophecy, said that the Chinese Communist Party is using the Cultural Revolution to transfer the current political pressure. When a dictator is afraid of entertainment, When restrictions are released, this is also a dangerous game in itself.
Ma Jian believes that the normal thinking of Chinese people will be castrated and will depart from the civilized world. There are nearly 1.4 billion Chinese people, which is huge. This is very scary.
Yang Haiying, a professor at Shizuoka University in Japan, believes that the CCP has pushed China into the 2.0 era of the Cultural Revolution. He said that it will definitely affect ethnic minority songs, songs from Hong Kong and Taiwan, very old songs from the Republic of China era, and some traditional songs. Now they will be fully sung, so the culture will fade away. Now China will move towards a complete lock-up of the country. The most important thing is ideological and ideological, and it cannot be linked to the international community.
The staff of Guangzhou Qiangui KTV confirmed that they had received the above-mentioned notice from the Chinese Communist Party.
Regarding the official censorship of the karaoke repertoire of folk entertainment and entertainment by the Chinese Communist Party, netizens exclaimed that “the era of red songs is coming.” “The Cultural Revolution is here again, the era of red songs! Are we North Korea?”
Some netizens ridiculed: Why are you bothering? Everyone should send a piece of strong tape to stick their mouths. People communicate with their eyes and sing with their eyes in karaoke venues. In doing so, it is safe and environmentally friendly, as well as epidemic prevention!
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