seems like a way to silence dissident speak, or rhetoric, anything critical of the CCP.
this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2025
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That's banned by default. They are targeting uneducated nonsense.
Curious to see if this leads to licenses or degrees being revoked as universities have their name tied to what people are saying.
I get that you don’t want misinformation happening on certain topics. The scary part comes when you’re going to decide to police it. Can you still share info on the health journey of you or your loved one? Can you still ask people to buy your products that are meant to save more money in the long run than they cost? Can you tell people you had a bad experience with a certain bank? Not a fan of the approach, but I do understand the basic concept of why they’d want to do something.
Apparently people with degrees cannot lie
I once worked for a CPA who asked me what a balance sheet was for.
He was from a wealthy Tibetan family dynasty and clearly paid his way into the industry, but who knows why he would choose to do that because he clearly was completely over his head.
We used to call him Michael Scott sans charisma.
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everyone loves censorship
While I am pretty skeptical of US-style polemics on free speech, I of course support free expression, strong journalistic culture, limiting the influence of oligarch propaganda and significant safeguards to censorship.
That being said there are clear externalities to easy access to digital content distribution platforms that prioritize engagement above all else and do not bear responsibility for their actions.
I of course would never trust the CCP on this, but I think in the long term the externalities inherent to social media distribution will have to be accounted for.
Yikes
It's incredible that despite how shit the US has become It's still a better place than 1984 land
A real communist country would have a UBI that doesn't pressure people to become scammers and grifters, just to make a wage in a shit economy with little financial opportunities.
Its so funny to see people fleeing the US, meanwhile my maternal grandmother from China has a US naturalization oath ceremony like next week.
Jumping from one burning pot to another is so awkward, but objectively speaking, it's still a slight improvement.
Hope she's doing ok. <3
I know moving is a huge pain for the elderly.
She's been here for nearly a decade, she's fine I think. She lived with us, and she's very annoying, but she did take care of me back when we were in China and my parents were busy working, so I guess I should probably be more grateful. I'm although I don't exactly like her, I'm glad it'd become more difficult for this admin to target her with the soon-to-be citizenship status (not completely safe tho, but it's relatively safer)
I hope 2026 and 2028 goes well in terms of politics, because like... we have a lot of relatives in the US, it'd be very impractical for us all to like... move to Canada for example (because I doubt Canadian immigration officials would take American asylum cases seriously).
(Pls, some future time traveler come course-correct this timeline)
I'm sure there's ways to see it as a bad thing, but the idea of only letting experts on a subject speak publicly about the subjects sounds like it could be really beneficial, particularly in some areas.
Of course if universities are corrupted or controlled it's definitely a bad thing. And of course shitty people are always going to be trying to control whatever mechanism or criteria keeps certain people from speaking.
But it's a nice idea.
Is it a nice idea?
Of course, I see the good side, too. However, besides the possible negatives you've already mentioned, I feel like this measure begs the question: Should everyday people be allowed to sway public opinion?
I think the answer is, unequivocally, YES! I think it is wrong to say that you need a degree to comment on a topic or that you need a degree to say what you think, publicly, about a topic.
I very much appreciate stricter regulation on misinformation, but this is concerning.
I suppose it will depend on how and how much they enforce this.
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It's one thing to curb misinfo, but this smell like trying to control the population. You can't just blanket ban people from speaking a certain topic, that's like saying all science communicator now need to have science degree to talk about science. Now they say only people with degree able to talk about it, then if someone talk about topic not permitted, they lose their privilege. It's a very basic tactic for authoritarian.
lol
There you have it, another MAGA dream, because most of those university graduates are fucking CCP members.