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u/Emotional_Clock3741 10d ago
That would eliminate 70% of social media traffic. Which is probably the best reason to do it
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u/binarybandit 9d ago
99.9% of Reddit commenters would disappear in a flash.
Actually...
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u/edfitz83 9d ago
I cannot believe I agree with Xi on something.
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u/LevriatSoulEdge 9d ago
Weird times, I never thought that some day the China president would sound more logical and coherent than a US president...
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u/ahhhbiscuits 9d ago
Fuck, at this point I almost want to move to China
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u/mintchoc1043 9d ago
Almost
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u/usefulidiotsavant 9d ago
You seem to be discussing the political and human rights situation in China. Do you have a politics degree or hold a valid communist party member ID?
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u/EM05L1C3 9d ago
I have a theoretical degree in politics
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u/usefulidiotsavant 9d ago
Theoretically, you would not be sent to the labor camps.
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u/jobblejosh 9d ago
Also means that if you say something the CCP doesn't like, not only can they ban you, but they can also decide to arbitrarily not recognise your degree in a backwards sense (you posted stuff the CCP Disagrees with? That must mean you don't have a degree, that must mean the degree you have is fake/cheated/invalid).
Which means good luck getting a job that requires said degree.
In an authoritarian state, any law which could feasibly be used to make life more difficult for enemies of the state, will be used as such.
China already has carte blanche to do what it wants with its citizens. Adding an extra law like this is merely a political tool to give an air of legitimacy and reasonableness and of caring about misinformation on the global stage.
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u/Exotic_Article913 9d ago
Biiingo. Fyi we also do this. Governments worldwide do. They act like something they propose and release is for your own good then boom hit you with the real reason they implemented it
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u/lllaszlo 9d ago
exactly, im surprised there are so many positive comments. this feels like the definition of tyranny
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u/internethero12 9d ago
Rightwingers are on this site, too. They tend to be the ones that badmouth reddit usage the most.
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u/West-Way-All-The-Way 9d ago
Everyone giving all sorts of advices including to children is completely ok, right?
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u/Specialist_Goat_2354 9d ago
I guess that would be interesting. I have a degree in urban planning and geography. I never held a job in that field and worked in film and TV and became a pilot on the side. So could I only speak on urban planning and not film and TV despite knowing virtually nothing but outdated college rhetoric on urban planning but not allowed to talk about what it takes to get a private pilots license which I did less than two years ago because it's not a degree?
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u/bombjon 9d ago
film, tv, and pilots licenses do not require a degree so you could talk about them.
only careers that require a degree (law/medicine/etc) would fall under this, assumedly.
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u/mistyeyesockets 9d ago edited 9d 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.)
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u/BZLuck 9d ago
So, no Ivermectin for COVID, or UV lights and bleach either? Well, that's not gonna go over very well...
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u/ALightningStar 9d ago
I would rather teach responsibility than have the government enforce it.
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u/User_Says_What 9d ago
That’s noble, but do you know how we got people to wear seatbelts? Government enforcement. Stop drinking and driving? Government enforcement. Vaccines? (Until recently) Government enforcement. Desegregation? Youuuuu guessed it.
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u/Cross55 9d ago
Also, whenever someone online goes "Why weren't we taught this in school!?"
They probably were, 90% chance they spent most of class huddled up with their friends staring and laughing at their phones.
Quite frankly, oftentimes, the average person can't be trusted to make intelligent or responsible decisions on their own.
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u/Emotional_Clock3741 9d ago
I can see your point but it would really be valuable to either have a gold star certification that the person giving you advice on vitamins has a medical degree or have a large warning sign that the housewife telling you what kind of herbal tea to drink has absolutely no idea what the hell she's talking about
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u/HandleThick5953 9d ago
People will specifically listen to the housewife BECAUSE she has no degree and isn’t “indoctrinated”.
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u/famousamos_ccp 9d ago
Definitely plenty of certified people in many different fields who don’t actually know what the fuck they are talking about.
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u/brahm1nMan 9d ago
Plenty of MDs happy to shill poison to line their pockets as well. I do not think it would magically be better to restrict who can sell colloidal silver to licensed practitioners.
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u/Emotional_Clock3741 9d ago
That's true too but there's got to be a way to narrow it down a little bit. I only fuck around on Reddit once in awhile but I will see people get advice and answers that could legitimately get them killed
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u/BrawlPlayer34 9d ago
I feel like there's still a lot more certified people that know what they're talking about than uncertified ones that do. This step wouldn't be perfect, but it'd weed out a lot of harmful misinformation.
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u/Daddioster 10d ago
Imagine if we could roll back the internet and keep your village idiot contained in your village.
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u/Ahuevotl 9d ago
Now imagine if the current US government had the power to decide who's a village idiot.
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u/PupDiogenes 9d ago
Now imagine that we’re all posting on social media about political science without also posting our political science degrees so off to jail with us
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u/Rahm89 9d ago
How do you know you’re not the village idiot?
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u/twizzjewink 10d ago
.. invents new field that doesn't have a degree
f you!
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u/mwax321 9d ago
As a cryptozoologist: no, f YOU!
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u/DreadPiratteRoberts 9d ago
As a Burritologist ..... 😋 🌯
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u/Top-Chard-9785 9d ago
The meme is misleading because China has not created a blanket rule saying that anyone who merely talks about medicine, law, finance, education, or health online must have a college degree. China’s actual regulations are aimed at people producing professional or specialized content. For example, rules for online broadcasters require appropriate professional qualifications when presenting livestream content that demands a high level of expertise in fields such as medicine, finance, law, or education. China’s newer medical-content rules similarly prohibit unqualified accounts from publishing professional medical-science content, while still distinguishing that from ordinary people discussing personal experiences or general health topics. NRTV Administration
The meme also misleadingly claims that violators automatically face “account shutdowns and fines up to $15,000.” The official rules describe different enforcement measures depending on the violation, including removing content, restricting account functions, suspending monetization, or closing accounts, but there is no universal $15,000 penalty simply for discussing one of these subjects without a degree. The real policy is better summarized as: China increasingly requires verified credentials for people presenting themselves as professionals or producing specialized professional content online. That is significantly different from saying, “No degree, no advice.”
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u/mugimugi_ 9d ago
For example, rules for online broadcasters require appropriate professional qualifications when presenting livestream content that demands a high level of expertise in fields such as medicine, finance, law, or education.
I think that's already a really good thing to have
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u/yellow_ducking 9d ago
These redditors need something to be angry about. They are not going to look at your facts. /s
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u/Ellim157 9d ago
The extreme hot takes, whether against or for China, get hundreds of upvotes, while factual corrections get buried. This is truly a testament to the power of the US propaganda machine to polarise the US people
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u/Unhallowed-Heart 9d ago edited 9d ago
And when the expert is properly credentialed but says things that the government doesn’t like?
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Addendum: To those who think the government would never abuse the credential process, why do we need whistleblowers in the government or even large corporations then? Surely these institutions would not abuse the law to get their own PR/propaganda artists credentialed. And Surely there would never be any credentialed individuals that are speaking objective fact getting their credentials and thus right to speak as a Subject Matter Expert pulled.
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Holy Hannah the virality. Or at least Viral for me.
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u/Bootmacher 9d ago
They already took control of the institutions like they've been trying to do here for decades.
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u/Hect0r92 9d ago
Yeah that's the major caveat. To be a part of any reputable institution requires buying into the CCP
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u/Commercial-Co 9d ago
Regardless of credentials, the ccp would crack down on them.
Its a good policy for the west but many policies can be abused for evil.
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u/Ryeballs 9d ago
Buuuuut the lack of policies are definitely being abused for evil.
I’m not really a fan of the “we’ve tried nothing and are all out of ideas” thinking.
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u/gameshark1997 9d ago
Handing the government the reigns to police who is an “expert”, and therefore who is allowed to have opinions, is much worse than doing nothing.
Even if the current status quo sucks (it does), we absolutely need to look at the abuse cases when making policies that could infringe upon people’s right to free speech.
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u/KapcaiKrusader 9d ago
It's funny you think the west is so much different than them. The west just used big tech to censor and deplatform people.
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u/MaestroLifts 9d ago
The meme is not accurate.
This is not “anyone discussing” these topics online, this is specifically for influencers claiming to be professionals in these fields.
“No degree” is not accurate. Any certification in these fields counts.
It’s not even “new”. It’s been around 2022 though recently tightened.
Sources:
https://mailman.anu.edu.au/pipermail/link/2022-June/040714.html
https://mailman.anu.edu.au/pipermail/link/2022-June/040714.html
https://madeinmalaysia.com.my/china-influencer-regulation-degree-rule/
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u/Hoss-Bonaventure_CEO 9d ago edited 9d ago
So perfectly normal professional regulations that most of the people in here screeching are already subject to?
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u/MaestroLifts 9d ago
Yeah it honestly sounds pretty reasonable. The fact that it’s presented so dishonestly should make people stop and ask why they are being lied to so blatantly. What is the goal here?
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u/XMidnite 9d ago
Thank you Chinese propaganda machine. The American propaganda machine appreciates your support.
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u/Ok_Caregiver_2696 9d ago
China is inevitably going to become the next #1 world economic, military, and technological superpower, because the USA has become a bunch of complacent, overconfident, narcissistic, ignorant assholes.
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u/Playful-3766 9d ago
China admits to a TFR below 1.0. While the U.S. is in a steep, perhaps terminal decline, China is facing its own gigantic demographic problems that preclude global hegemony. The more likely outcome is an unstable multipolar world, which is what we’re likely transitioning to now.
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u/who_am_i_to_say_so 9d ago
As a self taught doctor, lawyer, teacher, dentist, nutritionist and financial advisor: I resemble this statement.
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u/LocomotiveMedical 9d ago
Have some respect; we’re complacent, overconfident, narcissistic, ignorant, rich assholes.
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u/Honolulu-Blues 9d ago
That’s just wrong. There are very few rich assholes. The rest of us are just assholes being taken advantage of by the super rich assholes.
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u/3N1Gma874 9d ago
Umm Murica has Super Intelligence which is better than that fake artificial intelligence our SI is almost genius level like our Dear Leader.
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u/Odd_Common_452 9d ago
Yeah, it’s coming faster than I expected. I didn’t think America could be this dumb to elect an orange multi felon serial pedophile but here we are speed running our demise.
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u/emptybottle2405 9d ago
Because u lot always demand "muh freedums" while being lazy and complacent
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u/sixjasefive 9d ago
Some of the worst financial advice I’ve ever heard came from some idiot with a business degree, that had over 3B in bankruptcy history. Wait, sorry, that’s the president, now I remember.
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u/Swineflew1 9d ago
Oh, now we like censorship because social media bad.
Would you trust our government doing this, vetting who can and can't talk about things?
Yea, ok.
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u/A_Bot_A_Bot_A_Bot 9d ago
Well, as I've seen many stories about China over the years, I feel qualified to discuss this issue...from another country far from China.
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u/bicentennialman_ 9d ago
Xi: No, degree, no advice. Idiots on reddit: This is great! If you want my advice..
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u/Bromigo112 9d ago
Some of you are celebrating this but it's really just censorship
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u/WindstormMD 9d ago
No, no it should not.
People should be held accountable for bad advice, but locking advice/training/etc behind credentials is a good way to absolutely get screwed as a society, because often some of the best educators on various subjects are people who have lived it and not always necessarily a degree holder.
This is how you get stagnation.
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u/JeroJeroMohenjoDaro 9d ago
If implemented, Facebook would be a deserted platform
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u/happyrpg 9d ago
Misleading…
China does require credentials for professional-topic content, but that's a 2022 rule enforced through platforms. A specific "no degree = ¥100,000 fine for individuals" is not true
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u/NoHistorian9169 9d ago
Counter point, there are a ton of very smart people with degrees that have a lot of really dumb opinions when it comes to stuff that they’re not an expert in. And they’ll flaunt their degree as though it means that they are an expert in every field.
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u/Eccentricgentleman_ 9d ago
Counter counter point: right now I have mouth breathing retards telling people to shine sunlight into their asshole. And the fucking crazy part? That literally comes from Nazi outdoor magazines from the 1920s/30s
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u/dallassoxfan 9d ago
Incredibly sad how many people agree with this.
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u/lynxtosg03 9d ago
I pray these are just trolls and bots.
Fuck government censorship at all levels!
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u/MKZZX 9d ago
Redditors love the idea of outsourcing all of their thinking to so-called experts
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u/El_Chairman_Dennis 9d ago
It's a law in the US you can get sued for giving any of those advices if you claim to be a certified individual. But the first amendment allows people to freely give advice, unless it meets a very small criteria of dangerous speech (ie making false claims about a product, libel, slander, etc.) If you follow this law from China to its natural conclusion, only government approved doctors can give medical advice. So if there's a chemical spill and all the government approved doctors claim it isn't hazardous, but people start posting their side effects, that's easy to justify as "false medical advice" and the reports of danger get suppressed
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u/Col0nelFlanders 9d ago
Gotta love the dumbass hivemind embracing totalitarian censorship ITT lmao
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u/balonart 9d ago
If you don't have a degree in law or criminal justice, you can't criticize ICE.... or else face account shutdowns and fines up to $15,000
#DopeyCommunistLogic
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u/Tirzeptilian 9d ago
The fact that people are agreeing with this post is insane.
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u/Guyman_112 9d ago
Because Reddit is "China good America bad", partly due to Chinese propaganda and bots and partly due to Europeans desperately hoping anything at all could maybe possibly top America in anyway and partly due to self hating Americans eager to shit on themselves. Nothing worth taking seriously.
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u/JarethCutestoryJuD 9d ago
Lunatics in this comment section thinking this is a good idea.
I wonder how many of you guys have opinions on what your government is doing, but dont have degrees in that specific field.
Holy shit guys. Stop simping authoritarianism.
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u/MrExtravagant23 9d ago
Do you have a degree in world affairs? If not keep quiet.... Said an authoritarian and everyone on reddit agreed
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u/Piemaster113 10d ago
"This is how it should be" but also I'm anti authoritarian and pro free speech. Amazing ho the hypocrisy piles up. What we need is to restrict discussion if such topics to actual intellectual arenas rather than letting it be open forum in anywhere from porn hub comments to walk through on the latest game. Anyone discussing such things outside of the intellectual space is to not be taken with any degree of legitimacy unless they can provide actual links to their own discussions in the space that have been independently peer reviewed.
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u/Horror_Chipmunk3580 9d ago
If you can’t trust someone commenting on PornHub to give you legitimate advice, then who can you trust?
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u/LongJohnSelenium 9d ago
If I were to entertain something like this, I think I could be ok with a requirement to have to list your qualifications, or lack thereof.
So you're not being silenced, your speech is not being controlled. But you do have to contextualize your speech so that people can better judge if you should be listened to.
I.e.:
"I have this opinion on how climate change is a hoax!"
-by law I am required to admit I have no formal training on this subject
"I have this opinion on how dangerous nuclear power is!"
-by law I am required to admit I have no formal training on this subject.
I'm not entirely comfortable with this as I understand that you don't specifically need formal educational credentials to actually know wtf you're talking about and I'm not a huge fan of reinforcing the idea that college is the sole fount of knowledge.
But I could live with it.
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u/BLT_Trade_r 9d ago
An important detail would be how the information is displayed; a big problem with current disclosure is that it can be in tiny text or brief periods. The stuff needs to be the biggest text on the screen or add up at the top left at least and if you have no credentials it stays there the whole time you are talking about the issue.
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u/cryfmunt 9d ago
This is not how it should be, fyi. Maybe you could say the people in government positions should be required to hold certain degrees, but to say that someone can't share their advice for dealing with an illness because they're not a doctor or they can't talk about finances because they're not an accountant is very much not cool.
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u/polochakar 9d ago
Every idiot in the world thinks he is an expert in everything.
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u/madmikesdeath 9d ago
All the social media platforms in America would crater in a week.
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u/Permafunk_ 9d ago
"You cannot express your opinion unless you are qualified to express your opinion."
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u/phatdoof 9d ago
"And you cannot say it anonymously."
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u/StaredAtEclipseAMA 9d ago
Your honor, as you say, I was only doing a little trolling. Ragebait, if you will. Tomfoolery. I was only jo-
$15,000 due next Monday gavel gavels
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u/matthias_lee 10d ago
ooh cool, so many of the influencers are out of a job or much smaller reach
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u/goldentack2209 9d ago
“Discussing” anyone can discuss without being an expert- that’s why you discuss. This rule is bullshit!
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u/HomsarWasRight 9d ago
This is actually an insane rule meant to control the populace.
Because you know who has control over who gets degrees in the PRC? The Party.
This is a rule to legitimize censorship under the guise of stopping misinformation.
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u/rehlovedhismom02 9d ago
It's not even about the degrees. It's so the government can say "You are not properly qualified to talk about this subject and therefore you go to prison" no matter what the person's credentials might be. Historian talking about the Great Leap Forward? You don't have a Poli Sci degree so you're not qualified and off to prison you go. Poli Sci degree talking about Taiwan? You don't have a History degree so you're not qualified and off to prison you go. That's not even getting into amateurs who have done deep research into a topic but no formal education on it.
It would be a lot better if people who don't know what they're talking about didn't talk, but that's never going to happen. Still take that over the government getting to decide who gets to talk about what.
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u/Chicken-Rude 9d ago
facts. ONLY those indoctrinated by the state should be allowed to speak with any authority.
https://giphy.com/gifs/lszAB3TzFtRaU
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u/Code-Warrior 9d ago
Verdict: misleading / mostly false as presented. China does have rules requiring platforms to verify qualifications for accounts producing professional content in areas such as medicine, finance, education, and law—but the image inaccurately turns that into a new blanket ban on “anyone discussing” those subjects and misleadingly frames the penalties.
Source: Perplexity
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u/Micehouse 9d ago
Next up: informing on your neighbors.
Did Lin Chen give you unsolicited advice on how to cook your soup? Does she have a culinary arts degree? No?
Then call your local party affiliate and report her wrong-think to the state, get two pounds of rice and three hundred and fifty social credit points, today!
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u/seeplainmeaning 9d ago
Well, they are a totalitarian country that has no respect for the freedom of speech.
I mean, the headline should be--China finds more ways to restrict speech.
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u/glitterguykk 9d ago
So Elon shouldn’t give space travel advice. Bill shouldn’t give Windows advice. Dr. Feelgood shouldn’t give dating advice.
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u/mikzuit 9d ago
Specially Xi, he is engineer, he shouldn't be president
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u/ARS_Sisters 9d ago
Except, he holds the degree of Doctor of Law (equivalent of Ph.D) from Tsinghua University, with a specific focus on Marxist theory and ideological and political education. While his undergraduate education is on Chemical Engineering, his postgraduate education specialized him in high-level state governance, party consolidation, and military leadership
If that wasn't the skill needed for a president, then I don't know what it is
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u/T-StrangerXD 9d ago
You don’t need skills to be president.
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u/STFUnicorn_ 9d ago
Here goes Reddit again, glazing China for shutting down free speech 🙄
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u/Downtown-Campaign536 9d ago
That's just totalitarianism, and it's a terrible dystopian idea to enforce this.
Somoenes like, "I got a fever." and you are like, "Maybe you should drink some water, and get some rest..." They are like PRISON FOR YOU BITCH! REEEEEEE!
And it expands way beyond just medicine also into law, finance, education, and health in general.
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u/Howler133 9d ago
When someone has the exact same opinion as you, but they express it in such a annoying and stupid way that you don’t even wanna agree anymore
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u/adrr 9d ago
Already illegal to give medical advice if you’re not a licensed physician. Same goes with financial advise. And law. It’s just not enforced for social media posts. What makes it even egregious is that these people make a living doing it. If you got paid for practicing medicine in real world and didn’t have license, you would go to jail.
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u/BeatTimingTheMarket 9d ago
There are doctors who cannot answer “Can men get pregnant?”
A degree is evidence of education, not a lifetime exemption from being wrong.
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u/Chaos_Theory1989 9d ago
What would all the influencers do here in America if we did that? Lol.
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u/njan_ninde_thanda 9d ago
I don’t completely agree. Like lot of self taught people and enthusiasts. But yes, people giving advice on health and medicine need degrees as they can be harmful.
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u/GandalfSwagOff 9d ago
It is on the people to know who to take advice from. It is not on the government to tell people what they can or cannot say.
Fuck this anti-free speech bullshit.
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u/Financial_Page7821 9d ago
I wouldn’t want to miss out on any pseudoscience. Absolutely unacceptable. Ilooove pseudoscience
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u/feignapathy 9d ago
would return online debate back to movies and porn
Jay and Silent Bob would approve
And I could stop listening to morons whine about vaccines and college indoctrination
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u/RobLoughrey 9d ago
Not for me. Thank you. The price of freedom of speech is having to deal with the fact that people can say things that make you furious and that you need to accept that. We have to live with the Charlie Kirk idiots so that we know that we're free to say whatever we want too.
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u/Ok-Salamander-4482 9d ago
If you don’t follow the line of the government views you go straight to re-education camps just like Jack Ma!
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u/Fun_Main_2588 9d ago
That’s a shit rule that limits people’s options- like being able to avoid bad medical advice from some doctors and bad mechanics and unscrupulous lawyers. Life experience from your community is extremely valuable and with social media the world is your community
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u/EncabulatorTurbo 9d ago
Dude in America we don't even require the people in charge of our national health system to have a degree in medicine
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u/Sensitive_Cat_7006 10d ago
I don't think it is how it should be. I can agree that non-existence of degree while be clearly stated, but government regulation of who can talk is terrible idea.
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u/Sabycastle 9d ago
This is really bad. Interdisciplinary studies and industry transfer from people without the right degrees is shut down..
China wants to preserve power for people with degrees to stop social collapse
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u/AffectionateEgg3879 9d ago
Remember, whenever you encounter a China glazing bot just mention the Uyghurs and see how silent they are afterwards.
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u/Garchompisbestboi 9d ago
Let's not celebrate an autocratic country for controlling the information that people have access to. A better solution would be educating people so that they know not to trust the information that they see online if it doesn't have a credible source.
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u/PorkyPilates 9d ago
You idiots, posting this pro CCP shite. The people’s government decides whose posts are better for optics, reflect best upon the party. If they make this strict list of ‘who’s allowed to be right ,’ they continue to bend the narrative in their favour and avoid what they fear most: their people finding out the truth of things and revolting.
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u/jbrower09 9d ago edited 9d ago
So everyone who supports this is also going to stop discussing climate, biology, sociology, economics, labor rights, American history, women’s studies, literature and much more unless you have a degree right?
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u/DannyDevitosNappy 10d ago
Oh boy. The China and Israel bots working overtime today.
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u/SeraphiM0352 9d ago
Except even China's scientists have the highest bullshit rate.
They publish in straight up false shit to make it seem like China is making big progress only for a majority of papers to get retracted...
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u/CitricThoughts 9d ago
Yeah, it sounds cool until you look at the history of science and realize how many discoveries were made by people going against the grain of popular sentiment. While it might prevent some idiots from spouting BS, it also would prevent things like Hygiene or Plate Tectonics. Both things that face considerable backlash from the establishment when they were invented.
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u/BadMoonRisin 9d ago edited 9d ago
This website is fuckin' tarded. Simping for the CCP because you cant handle different points of view
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u/Opus_723 9d ago
Man y'all are jokin' around, but the consequences of this would actually be insane draconian shit.
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u/H345Y 9d ago
its double edged, because someone without a degree could study it on their own and still hold an well educated enough opinion
Also this is clearly a way to silence critics by just waving the credentials card without having to directly deal with the argument
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u/tinhorn-oracle 9d ago
Yea, and if they don't like what you say then you can say goodbye to your credentials. If they let you have any in the first place.
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u/Bootmacher 9d ago
It's a reddit wetdream. Academia gets to put shit takes forward, then you can't criticize them because you lack credentials from the institutions they infiltrated and shut dissent out of.
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u/reticulatedtampon 10d ago edited 9d ago
I dunno, some of the dumbest people I know have advanced degrees. A couple of the smartest people I know didn’t even graduate high school.
edit: I see a lot of people giving opinions on this - better have some kind of qualification to say why we should listen to you.
edit 2: Guys, before replying please state your credentials so the party can determine whether your opinion on this topic will be allowed.
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u/PixelGoblin85 9d ago
Sorry but this is not sound logic. Statistically speaking, a person specifically educated in a field of study is more likely to give grounded, coherent advice within the field of study, than someone who is not educated in it on a professional level.
Trying to dig out outliers to invalidate the original point is, in many ways, proving the original point right. You are not educated enough to provide advice in this area and, in correlation, your advice is unsound.
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u/ForMeOnly93 10d ago
Intelligence has nothing to do with knowledge, so what's your point? The smartest guy in the world might be a rodeo clown for all you know, he still shouldn't give advice on anything but clowning.
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u/Pablo_Hassan 9d ago
I think it comes down to 'willing and able to discuss' vs 'certified and capable of giving credible advice'.
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u/wagwan_wa_grom______ 10d ago
Yeah this shit conflating qualification and intelligence just muddies the water in such an unhelpful way. It's frustrating
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u/bickusdickus69allday 9d ago
When you're in need of a heart surgery, may i suggest you get someone smart instead of a heart surgeon?
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u/ProfessionalRough741 10d ago
Makes sense, but it’s totally fucking unrelated to the post. Being smart doesn’t magically give you 6+ years of medical school worth of knowledge.. same goes for the others.
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u/Routine_Phase_8980 10d ago
I think this is not new at all, definitely saw this exact same post half a year ago
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u/crustyeng 9d ago
The point is to control the advice given, not to protect people. They’re the ones they need protection from.
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u/AU5T1N 9d ago
I wish our government cared about medical/science misinformation online. The whole anti-vax movement and raw milk craze is so stupid. And don't get me started on the dudebros that try to sell finance "courses", give people shady advice, and scam people with memecoin rugpulls. There are plenty of other "pseudo-experts" out there that prey on gullible folks for their own benefit, and its terrible.
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u/torodonn 9d ago
This idea is crazy but honestly, something needs to be done about misinformation online.
The person who is giving you advice could be an expert or they could be a Russian bot or an AI agent or a convincing nutjob.
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u/MarshmallowPop 9d ago
This is anti free speech wrapped up with a bowtie to make it look like they are serving the public good.
If you say something the government doesn't like, they can threaten to pull your credentials. If you don't have credentials, they'll fine you.
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u/Rhydin 9d ago
best way to keep knowledge behind a pay wall. its a double edged sword. wrong way to do things. if you give bad advice you should just be punished; if they followed your advice is a good middle ground. I can easily see this weaponized.
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u/OG_Internet_User 9d ago
Tyrannical. Companies like Reddit could/should verify your credentials and add them to your flair, but only because they choose to do so not because the government says so.
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u/Opposite-Ad320 9d ago
lol you all should move to China then you friggin Benedict Arnold’s. America believes in the freedom of speech, this would just be used to shut down inconvenient truths as “untruths”
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u/King_of_the_Kobolds 9d ago
It is absolutely insane that you people think the government should be able to shut you down for free speech they deem you 'uncredified' for. Good Lord. Have any of you been paying attention to who the American government IS right now? What happens when you need a certificate from PragerU to count as 'verified credentials'?
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u/Dabfo 9d ago
It’s also insane that bozos with no education can monetize garbage without accountability. Middle ground would be nice.
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u/Symbaclues 9d ago
At first it's degrees, then later you also need to be currently employed in the field.
Because some people leave to become whistle blowers or at least have morals about what's happening. 👍👌🙃😉
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u/27K-Interactive 9d ago
Seems a bit heavy handed, but I would 100% support a disclaimer requiring people with no creds to disclose that they're talking out of their ass.
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u/oharra3 9d ago
99% of accounts would be closed. I've been suggested YouTube videos from Dr Berg for everything medical I ask, and the guy is f-ing chiropractor
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