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Now China wants to censor online comments:
The new changes affect Provisions on the Management of Internet Post Comments Services, a regulation that first came into effect in 2017. Five years later, the Cyberspace Administration wants to bring it up to date.
"The proposed revisions primarily update the current version of the comment rules to bring them into line with the language and policies of more recent authority, such as new laws on the protection of personal information, data security, and general content regulations," says Jeremy Daum, a senior fellow at Yale Law School's Paul Tsai China Center.
[...] But recently, there have been several awkward cases where comments under government Weibo accounts went rogue, pointing out government lies or rejecting the official narrative. That could be what has prompted the regulator's proposed update.
Chinese social platforms are currently on the front lines of censorship work, often actively removing posts before the government and other users can even see them. ByteDance famously employs thousands of content reviewers, who make up the largest number of employees at the company. Other companies outsource the task to "censorship-for-hire" firms, including one owned by China's party mouthpiece People's Daily. The platforms are frequently punished for letting things slip.
Beijing is constantly refining its social media control, mending loopholes and introducing new restrictions. But the vagueness of the latest revisions makes people worry that the government may ignore practical challenges. [...] The tricky question is, no one knows if the government intends to enforce this immediately.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday June 21 2022, @02:40PM (4 children)
Sorry, I don't buy unicorns online. My take is that we're already seeing the failure mode of such a scheme - the massive number of people required to police it even with substantial automation. Even China will run out of cheap labor.
(Score: 4, Touché) by Opportunist on Tuesday June 21 2022, @04:28PM (3 children)
It's not necessary to policy that. Just have the other users policy it. It's Web 2.0, surveillance state version. Instead of "you make the content, we make the profit", it's now "you do the surveillance and get social credit for it".
Just learn from the best [wikipedia.org]. Install "volunteers" who will do the work for you, in exchange for being considered good citizens. It's gonna work like a charm, trust me.
(Score: 0, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 22 2022, @02:23AM (1 child)
Link broken - I think you meant here: Texas abortion ban turns citizens into "bounty hunters" [cbsnews.com].
(Score: 2) by Opportunist on Wednesday June 22 2022, @02:40AM
Like I said, learn from the best.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday June 22 2022, @02:55AM
China has been at that level decades ago. They had to abandon that in order to survive. Now, my take is that it's too late for them to go back.