Absolutely based.

"I’m all for free speech, but the self-proclaimed health gurus are causing so much damage and honestly need some regulation so I’m for this regulation," one user wrote. "You can’t practice medicine, psychology, physio etc, without a license, so I’m not sure why they were allowed to 'practice online' in the first place."

This user gets it.

This is the way medical subreddits are run and I like it a lot. You prove your credentials to the mods, they're tagged next to your name, and if a thread becomes something politically/professionally relevant it's restricted to people with tags. The result is that those threads typically have good comment sections without most of the typical reddit bullshit. They aren't stuck re-justifying germ theory to a 10th century peasant with a smartphone or sorting through spam/troll comments.

I. NO INVESTIGATION, NO RIGHT TO SPEAK

Unless you have investigated a problem, you will be deprived of the right to speak on it. Isn't that too harsh? Not in the least. When you have not probed into a problem, into the present facts and its past history, and know nothing of its essentials, whatever you say about it will undoubtedly be nonsense. Talking nonsense solves no problems, as everyone knows, so why is it unjust to deprive you of the right to speak? Quite a few comrades always keep their eyes shut and talk nonsense, and for a Communist that is disgraceful. How can a Communist keep his eyes shut and talk nonsense?

It won't do!

It won't do!

You must investigate!

You must not talk nonsense!

Noooo a time honored tradition on the internet is pretending to be an expert to manufacture consent!!

Common China W

Chinese Asmonogold with his phD in entomology.

I'm really torn here between "this is unbelievably based and would do incalculable good if applied worldwide, and in fact if this were done in the U.S. 20 years ago we'd be living in an entirely different future" and being big butt mad because I have a lot of opinions and hate being shut up. Also even though i'm just a biology degree dropout that doesn't mean I know nothin, yknow

Considering that we now know the US funded anti-vax stuff during Covid in the Phillipines (thats the one they admitted to at least), this is probably a smart move.

"I don't know how so many see this as a good thing, like this is blatant silencing of the common man, basically saying 'you’re just a regular person working a regular job, you have no say in what goes on in society.'"

well let's see: if you're a regular person working a regular job in china, you have access to their insanely cheap higher education. alternatively, if a regular person working a regular job in china wants to get involved with what goes on in society directly (making medical disinformation slop doesn't do that), they can join the CPC because china is an actually-functioning democracy where anyone can contribute if they're willing to put in the effort.

one of the biggest advantages of china over uSSa is that they don't have such rampant anti intellectualism. imagine being elitist while being anti intellectual.

First they came for the antivaxxers, and everyone clapped

they previously fined people, love to see them tightening it further

it's not freedom if a dropout can't be considered equal to a virologist in the marketplace of ideas

very cool and also very good

Imagine if the GamerGate movement required you to have a degree in journalism before shitstirring about "ethics in video game journalism". so much harm would have been prevented if this was a widespread policy 30 years ago

This very much seems like the sort of regulation that butthurt Republicans would get mad about in the same way that they get mad they don't have the "freedom" to dump industrial waste into rivers or abide by consumer protection laws, as if either of those things inhibit their daily life negatively at all.

The only thing this would actually do is to prevent assholes from trumpeting dumb shit as "facts" so people with too little time to factcheck things themselves will believe them.

Thankfully I have a B.S. degree in Math

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What they don't want their own version of joe rogan platforming absolute snake oil salesmans and proliferating stupid ideas into mainstream? Unfortunately a sizable amount of people push such ideas even with degrees in that field but it doesn't help when unqualified grifters back them by the dozens with huge following.

What's this? A whiff of sensible mass media policy? A government that takes responsibility for things besides what the corporations demand they take responsibility for? Must be the evil authoritarian anti first amendment seeseepee.

What do you mean I can't just call myself Dr. Feelmorebad and sell vitamins like Vitamin-W(oe) to cure the woe in your heart? The other docs only go to Vitamin K, Dr. Feelmorebad goes all the way to W! For the Win! And Beyond!

That won't stop it completely but that's a pretty awesome.

That’s so evil. Won’t China take into consideration how harmful this is to these young entrepreneurs?

This would simply be impossible to replicate in the west, for the straight forward reason that trust in the government is so incredibly low.

i dont like this idea personally specifically because it means you need to do a degree to give any advice on hrt, and endocrinologists are comically cringe when it comes to studying optimal doses for transition. seems like generally a good thing outside of trying to communicate understudied stuff, though.

The only one I’m a bit weary on is education. If that’s strictly for discussion of pedagogical methods, then fine. But not if it’s a blanket to cover anything that could potentially be taught in school.

As far as who’s an influencer and who’s not: it’s like porn, I know it when I see it.