Provisions on the Management of Internet Post Comments Services came into effect last year. The Cyberspace Administration wants to keep up with the times.
New laws on the protection of personal information, data security, and general content regulations are some of the things that would be affected by the proposed revisions.
The provisions cover a wide range of comments, from forum posts, replies, messages left on public message boards, and " bullet chats", an innovative way that video platforms in China use to display real-time comments on top of the video. Texts, symbols, pictures, audio, and videos are all under this regulation.
The need for a stand-alone regulation on comments is due to the fact that they are difficult to censor as rigorously as other content like articles or videos.
Nobody pays attention to the replies and bullet chats. They are moderated in a careless way.
There have been several cases where comments under government Weibo accounts went rogue and pointed out government lies. The proposed update may be related to that.
Chinese social platforms often remove posts before the government and other users can even see them. Content reviewers make up the largest group of employees at ByteDance. The People's Daily is owned by acensorship-for-hire firm.
Beijing's social media control is constantly being improved. People are concerned that the government may ignore practical challenges because of the vagueness of the revisions. If the new rule about mandating pre-publish reviews is to be strictly enforced, it will force the platforms to dramatically increase how many people they use to censor the internet. No one knows if this will be enforced immediately.
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