Weeks later, the CAC announced a follow-up plan that would target “illegal and dangerous content” be circulated on popular online discourse programs.  ,
According to the state-owned Global Times newspaper,” It will target those who spread rumors and false information about public policies and social issues,” adding that some internet users would resort to creating” sentational conspiracy theories.”  ,
” They create dreadful personalities, build troubling stories, and level videos of horrible experience to abuse public sympathy”, the statement read.  ,
To avoid state censors, millions of Chinese internet users have found it necessary to use Mandarin puns, homophones, memes, and another cleverly deceived internet jargon to continue conversations about contentious topics.  ,
Banana fruit for instance, translates to” jin jiao pi” in Mandarin, which shares the exact word as President Xi’s title. But to avoid being detected by censors, netizens may speak to Mr Xi as” xiang jiao pis” online, in place of his proper name.  ,
Shrimp moss, or” xia tai” in Mandarin, sounds similar to saying” step down”.
The online yell for President Xi to resign is known as” Xiang jiao pi xia tai,” which can also be said using emojis.  ,
When Weibo users discuss censorship on the site,” He xie,” the terms for unity and river crab good related in Mandarin.  ,
Weibo people have substituted another seafood like fish because the characters for river crab are now banned and have had dead-end results.  ,
Some observers worry that as repression expands, especially as the Chinese government tries to become a world leader in conceptual AI.  ,
According to Maya Wang, Associate China Director at Human Rights Watch,” What you see in recent years is that the government has tightened such censorship.”
But” fully eradicating” the use of jokes and puns from the internet is very unlikely, said Ms Yew. Given the decentralized and fragmented nature of the internet, she said,” The relationship between Taiwanese citizens and state censors is a cat-and-mouse activity.”  ,
” Chinese users, 1.09 billion of them as of Dec 2023, may continue to create new emotions to escape the editors”, she added. ” The cat-and-mouse sport may just become more powerful”.
WHO IS SAFE?  ,
After some social media platforms and platforms announced they were complying with the condition and repressing negative information that promoted consumerism and flaunted money, a wave of suspensions hit China’s very wealthy elite online earlier in May.  ,
Google, Douyin and Xiaohongshu, China’s biggest social programs, were only a handful of companies that took a walk against “negative value-oriented information”.  ,
Weibo administrators announced it had taken behavior on users and glad that” showed of wealth and income devotion” as well as “extravagance and waste” –” cleaning up” more than 1, 000 posts of “bad value” behaviour. According to authorities, the site’s 27 records were suspended or prohibited altogether.  ,
Google Holdings, which runs the famous instant messaging program Sq, announced it had targeted records “promoting consumerism” and extravagant lifestyles – deleting more than 6, 000 pieces of content and “dealt with 36 improper accounts”.  ,