[Epoch Times September 1, 2021](Epoch Times reporter Li Jing comprehensive report) Recently, the Chinese Communist Party has tightened control over online public opinion in an all-round way. The authorities require that all self-media reports and comments related to public affairs need to obtain official permission to publish, otherwise they will face silence and even be labeled as “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”.
On August 30, the Sina Weibo community management official Weibo “Weibo Administrator” announced that some fan accounts “organized” fans to the media comment area and other public spaces to “swipe the amount and control comments”, and regard the public space as an amplifying contradiction. “Social Field”.
Weibo administrators pointed out that “maliciously scanning volume control comments” under official Weibo of government affairs and media means “picking and provoking troubles” and “disturbing order.” Weibo has taken measures ranging from banning comments for one week to one month on 159,103 users, and banning 1,389 users for 1-3 months.
The Mainland China Paper said that the official WeChat account of the government affairs official and the official media account represent the direction of the government’s public opinion. Organizing fans to the media comment area to scan the volume and control comments is a serious interference and damage to the government’s propaganda.
Recently, the Chinese Communist Party has comprehensively upgraded its control over online public opinion. The Cyberspace Administration of the Communist Party of China issued a message in January this year, requesting to strengthen control over online platforms including “self-media”, popular search hotspots, and short video platforms.
In February of this year, WeChat public accounts and other self-media platforms issued notices in succession, requiring public accounts to obtain an “Internet News Information Service License”, otherwise “commenting on political, economic, military, diplomatic and major emergencies is prohibited.” In April, following the closure of some current political forums, many military self-media media on the mainland were successively blocked.
On July 15, China’s three major self-media accounts “Paper CLIP” and “Elephant Association”, and Huang Zhangjin, the media person who founded the “Elephant Association”, posted on Weibo, Station B (Beep Bilibili) and many others on the mainland. The account on the platform was banned and closed.
The Cyberspace Administration of the Communist Party of China announced on August 27 that it would rectify the content of financial news “illegal release” from the media, and the first phase will be from now to October 26. Subsequently, Sina Weibo and Tencent’s WeChat, as well as the two major short video platforms-Douyin and Kuaishou, announced on August 28 the launch of a special rectification action for illegal financial content.
Xie Tian, a chair professor at the Aiken School of Business at the University of South Carolina in the United States, said that the CCP has always been afraid of being exposed to lies. Fear, because politics and economy have always been linked together. With the intensification of official speech control, most of the self-media are in a precarious state.
Natural Ratio: Li Qiong
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