China Bars Influencers from Discussing Professional Topics Without Degrees

https://iol.co.za/lifestyle/2025-10-27-china-s-new-law-only-degree-holding-influencers-can-discuss-professional-topics-netizens-divided-on-its-impact/

by mapontosevenths • 9 months ago

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silexia• 9 months ago

What a nightmare. Today, I posted an article critical of doctors, pointing out that legislation strictly limits the number of new doctors each year, this driving up medical costs (and doctors salaries). Imagine if I couldn't post that?

We need to shrink government power worldwide, government will never give us our freedoms and rights back if we give them up.

mapontosevenths• 9 months ago

While I agree, I do also see the problem they're trying to solve as being very real.

I think a better answer would be find some way to flag actual experts as such and everyone else as "peanut gallery". Everyone would still be free to say what they want, but without the risk that we mistake the local meth aficionado for a cancer expert and get grandma killed.

It would be hard or maybe impossible to do in a way that preserves privacy though.

necovek• 9 months ago

I wonder if this applies to "regular media" as well? Does a News report or any comment from a guest on a TV show need be shared only by a trustworthy expert? Eg. even for a weather report, it needs to be a qualified meteorologist delivering the forecast?

Or can a TV host read from the script without any legal liability?

China Bars Influencers from Discussing Professional Topics Without Degrees

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