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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: 2) by Opportunist on Wednesday June 22 2022, @02:44AM
That was a jab on the old "once we REALLY have communism, we won't have any need for KGB/Stasi/Securitate anymore" adage of the time. Yes, that was a real thing back in the days: "Sure, today we still need (insert internal security organization) because there is still internal enemies of the state, but once we have REAL communism, this will no longer be necessary".
The joke this launched was "Will we really not need the KGB anymore when we finally have Communism?" "Yes, of course. People will have learned to arrest themselves by then".