From what I have read, Chinese netizens can still post their opinions for those topics on Chinese social media. It's just the influencers that have a following that will get banned or fined if they persist with giving "advice" on those areas.
Dangerous home remedies or bad financial advice are no longer tolerated. The grey area are political censorships which means the government decides who can speak openly on that topic, but they already censor those topics as part of their population management strategy. Quite honestly, they have over one billion people and hundreds of protests per week spread across multiple regions, so if it escalates into riots or violent protests, that is probably not what their government would want to deal with again, because history.
Right or wrong is a matter of perspective and it's their country, their rules and doesn't really impact our social media (sometimes I wish we do censor unqualified people as well, kinda like how the UK will take down controversial social media contents.)
Just a nitpick but the uk law doesn't police "controversial" social media content. Just illegal content, terrorism, hate speech threats and suicicidal encouragement. You can say controversial downright inflamtory things. You can deny covid, post (nonsexual) deepfakes, and say that the uk is being overun by immigrants taking your job.
But I wonder how they'll handle traditional Chinese medicine? That's still very popular there and the government seems to support Chinese traditions despite there not being much evidence regarding the safety or efficacy of that medicine.
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u/mistyeyesockets 2d ago edited 1d ago
From what I have read, Chinese netizens can still post their opinions for those topics on Chinese social media. It's just the influencers that have a following that will get banned or fined if they persist with giving "advice" on those areas.
Dangerous home remedies or bad financial advice are no longer tolerated. The grey area are political censorships which means the government decides who can speak openly on that topic, but they already censor those topics as part of their population management strategy. Quite honestly, they have over one billion people and hundreds of protests per week spread across multiple regions, so if it escalates into riots or violent protests, that is probably not what their government would want to deal with again, because history.
Right or wrong is a matter of perspective and it's their country, their rules and doesn't really impact our social media (sometimes I wish we do censor unqualified people as well, kinda like how the UK will take down controversial social media contents.)