China has implemented new rules requiring popular social media users to use their real names, leading to Chinese influencers quitting social media platforms. The regulations aim to align online identities with offline identities, making it harder to express controversial opinions. The Communist Party is building an ambitious police state with extensive surveillance tools. The Chinese public appears broadly supportive of government monitoring, with high favorability for CCTV surveillance and state snooping on emails and internet usage. The crackdown on access to information from abroad aligns with the CCP's focus on national security, and the government censors news that might cast its surveillance efforts negatively.
Social media sites in China now require popular users to reveal their real names to the public: “The new regulation will force people to align their online identity with their offline identity, making it more difficult to express controversial opinions” https://t.co/k0Vwbj1jRS
#China’s enormous surveillance state is still growing Its citizens don’t seem to mind. It may be that Chinese people are basing their views on incomplete information. The government censors news that might cast its surveillance efforts in a negative light. A study from 2022… https://t.co/mluCiR3wb2
China’s crackdown on access to information from abroad aligns with the CCP’s increasing focus on national security. For more context on how the CCP frames national security, check out this translation of a People’s Daily article on modernizing China's national security system.
“The new regulation will force people to align their online identity with their offline identity, making it more difficult to express controversial opinions” The end of anonymity on Chinese social media https://t.co/k0Vwbj1jRS
“the Chinese public appears to be broadly supportive of government monitoring. A survey of 3,000 people in 2018 found that 82% favoured CCTV surveillance. Even state snooping on emails and internet usage received 61% support” https://t.co/M7EMxm6WMY
The end of anonymity on Chinese social media https://t.co/k0Vwbj1jRS
I am so amazed by how many revealing points this one-minute “educational” video of the #CCP contains. 1. It tells you using a #VPN to do ANYTHING in #China is ILLEGLE. 2. The CCP views ALL foreign countries as ENEMIES. 3. The CCP perceives anyone who browses information… https://t.co/o4rRlH6we9
Chinese influencers are quitting social media to avoid complying with new rules requiring popular users to reveal their real names https://t.co/k0Vwbj1jRS
Chinese social platforms like Weibo and Douyin require popular users to reveal their real names, forcing some influencers to either cull their followers or quit (@caiweic / Rest of World) https://t.co/zIFlpZzSbM 📫 Subscribe: https://t.co/OyWeKSRpIM https://t.co/DR11I5CsO4
The Communist Party is building the most ambitious police state in China’s history, with the legal powers and surveillance tools to bring order and ideological conformity to every corner of daily life https://t.co/4AOcN3O872 👇
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Chinese influencers are quitting social media instead of obeying new rules requiring them to use their real names https://t.co/TCsc51lXcJ
Anti-censorship tools are quietly disappearing into thin air in China https://t.co/3EoHkxPFYW by @jagmeets13
The end of anonymity on Chinese social media New from @CaiweiC https://t.co/TCsc51lXcJ
Beware those who would oppose anything that would interfere with the rise of the CCP. Exercising our leverage vis a vis China is the only way forward. Lighthizer is always right on this stuff. https://t.co/dJhd4XwdZP via @WSJopinion