CN China launches app for citizens to report anyone who has 'mistaken opinions' or 'denies the excellence of socialist culture'

China launches app for citizens to report anyone who has 'mistaken opinions'​

By Chris Jewers For Mailonline 12:32 EDT 19 Apr 2021 , updated 16:06 EDT 19 Apr 2021
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has launched a new app that will allow citizens to report others who criticise the ruling Chinese Communist Party or question its account of history online.

Released by China's cyber regulator, along with a similar hotline, the app aims to crack down on 'historical nihilists' ahead of the Party's 100th anniversary in July, the regulator said in a statement on Friday.

An arm of Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said the app and hotline will allow and encourage netizens to report fellow internet users who spread 'mistaken opinions' online in order to create a 'good public opinion atmosphere'.

China has launched a new app that will allow citizens to report others who criticise the ruling Chinese Communist Party or questions its account of history online. Pictured: A woman takes a photos of her ice cream with her phone along a street in a traditional neighbourhood in Beijing, April 4, 2021 [file photo]
Such offences would include 'distorting' the Party's history, attacking its leadership and policies, defaming national heroes and 'deny the excellence of advanced socialist culture' online, the notice said.

"For a while now, some people with ulterior motives... have spread historically nihilistic false statements online, maliciously distorting, slandering and denying Party, national and military history in an attempt to confuse people's thinking.

'We hope that the majority of Internet users will actively play their part in supervising society ... and enthusiastically report harmful information,' it said.

'Historical nihilism' is a phrase used in China to describe public doubt and scepticism over the Chinese Communist Party's description of past events.

China's internet is tightly censored and most foreign social media networks, search engines and news outlets are banned in the country.

Internet authorities often increase censorship and online supervision ahead of major events including historical anniversaries, political meetings and sports events.

The notice did not specify what punishments would be dealt to people who are reported through the hotline.

Netizens in China already face jail time and other legal punishments for posting content that is critical of the county's leadership, policies and history.

Legal amendments released earlier this year stipulate that people who 'insult, slander of infringe upon' the memory of China's national heroes and martyrs face jail time of up to three years.

China's internet is tightly censored by the ruling Communist Party, and most foreign social media networks, search engines and news outlets are banned in the country. Pictured: Chinese President Xi Jinping pplauds during the closing session of the National People's Congress in Beijing on April 16
Last week, authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu detained a 19-year-old man after making 'insulting' comments online about Japan's 1937 occupation of Nanjing, which saw Imperial Japanese soldiers murder hundreds-of-thousands.

Chinese social media sites that fail to censor critical content also face financial sanctions as well as temporary suspensions of service under current law.

According to a , a public spreadsheet detailing speech crimes in China shows over 2,000 times when the Chinese government punished people for what they said online and offline over the past eight years.

The spreadsheet also links to publicly issued verdicts, police notices and official news reports, but is far from complete, with most punishments not made public.

Crimes listed on the spreadsheet range from people punished for what they said about the coronavirus pandemic and China's response to it, the clash between Chinese and Indian soldiers last year, to others who criticised police officers.

The person behind the spreadsheet told The Times that his name is Wang', but remained anonymous out of fear of retribution from the Chinese government.

He started the spreadsheet in 2019, and is active online 'collecting and exposing cases that China violates citizens' rights of speech freedom.'

'I knew that there were speech crimes in China, but I've never thought it's so bad,' Mr. Wang posted on his Twitter account in August. 'Big Brother is watching you. I tried to look for the eyes of Big Brother and ended up finding them everywhere.'

 

[BlackBallz]

The perks of being a communist dictatorship. You can brazenly punish people from wrongthink.

 

[furūtsu]

This is definitely coming to the US eventually. It won't be criticism of socialism, though. Just woke shit.

Having to choose between being an eternal shut-in or forever concealing your true thoughts to blend in with normals sounds fucking nightmarish. If I were a chink I'd have roped by now.

 

[Solid Snek]

Oh boy, China made Twitter!

Better late than never, Eastasia.

 

[TLEN]

Inb4 a botnet keeps reporting the CCP for not sneeding enough.

 

[Thumb Butler]

This is definitely coming to the US eventually. It won't be criticism of socialism, though. Just woke shit.

Having to choose between being an eternal shut-in or forever concealing your true thoughts to blend in with normals sounds fucking nightmarish. If I were a chink I'd have roped by now.

Imagine being publicly shamed for... say... being horrified by troon piss porn.

"furūtsu - born xxxxxx, address xxxx xxxxxxx, hereby declares that troon piss porn is acceptable and that stating otherwise is a crime".

 

[KingCoelacanth]

Stuff like this works because its popular with the people. In the USSR people couldn't wait to report others as "trotskyists" and get them sent to the gulags. The west loves stuff like this as well, countries like england have "hate speech" hotlines and in the US people find workarounds when the government does not provide the infrastructure, like the "getting racists fired" groups.
Removing anti-social, anti-moral thoughts and people from society tends to be a common trait of humanity.

 

[Marshal Mannerheim]

Last week, authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu detained a 19-year-old man after making 'insulting' comments online about Japan's 1937 occupation of Nanjing, which saw Imperial Japanese soldiers murder hundreds-of-thousands.

And how exactly is this different from laws in the West that ban you from disagreeing with certain historical events?

It won't be criticism of socialism, though.

It's very of you to assume that a woke dictatorship would be socialist instead of a form of neoliberal capitalism run by troons.

 

[Ashford Lawrence]

Stuff like this works because its popular with the people. In the USSR people couldn't wait to report others as "trotskyists" and get them sent to the gulags. The west loves stuff like this as well, countries like england have "hate speech" hotlines and in the US people find workarounds when the government does not provide the infrastructure, like the "getting racists fired" groups.
Removing anti-social, anti-moral thoughts and people from society tends to be a common trait of humanity.

Absolutely. Americans love snitching on each other and Americans love being dominated by the government. This shit is going to be mainstream within five years.

Cities like Portland and Minneapolis already have roving gangs of Democrats violently assaulting anyone they suspect of being a conservative and they do it with the full support of their local taxpayers and elected officials.

 

[DumbDude42]

This is definitely coming to the US eventually. It won't be criticism of socialism, though. Just woke shit.

Having to choose between being an eternal shut-in or forever concealing your true thoughts to blend in with normals sounds fucking nightmarish. If I were a chink I'd have roped by now.

to give the chinks some slack, for them it's not as nightmarish as it sounds to us, because the CCP is a relatively benevolent overlord right now. it's not great leap forward and cultural revolution horror stories anymore.
the system in principle is pretty nightmarish, but its practical implementation in china is pretty liveable.
if (when) such systems are implemented in the west however, that's gonna be some real hell on earth, because in stark contrast to the chinese government, western governments main concern is destroying their own native populations.

to put it in simple terms: the CCP puts hostile minorities (uighurs) in concentration camps for the benefit of the productive majority (han chinese)
western governments are more likely to do the exact opposite: they'll gladly crack down and terrorize the majority population for the benefit of hostile minorities

 

[Male Idiot]

While this sounds like it would do its job, there will be a lot of collateral damage once mandatory report quotas are thought up by someone.

Corporations have the same where employees need to forward new ideas and initiatives even if they are totally unqualified and unable to do so.

US version: You haven't reported a racist today. Are you being a good ally?

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

Imagine wearing your face diaper wrong in an official picture sent to news outlets around the world. Those guys are getting some points docked from their social credit score.

But really, this is just the same shit we have here/will have soon except we firmly believe in capitalism and the free market so it's all privatized.

to give the chinks some slack, for them it's not as nightmarish as it sounds to us, because the CCP is a relatively benevolent overlord right now. it's not great leap forward and cultural revolution horror stories anymore.
the system in principle is pretty nightmarish, but its practical implementation in china is pretty liveable.
if (when) such systems are implemented in the west however, that's gonna be some real hell on earth, because in stark contrast to the chinese government, western governments main concern is destroying their own native populations.

to put it in simple terms: the CCP puts hostile minorities (uighurs) in concentration camps for the benefit of the productive majority (han chinese)
western governments are more likely to do the exact opposite: they'll gladly crack down and terrorize the majority population for the benefit of hostile minorities

The CCP knows that without the Chinese people's support, they'll swing from lampposts, and this actually true because China is a fucked up place. Our leadership doesn't need our support, they firmly believe they can drain every ounce of blood from us and move on to some other part of the world. They'll keep us down by any means necessary.

Removing anti-social, anti-moral thoughts and people from society tends to be a common trait of humanity.

Because that weirdo angry guy who thinks praying to rocks won't actually help the tribe hunt better is a threat to group stability and might do something dumb that gets everyone killed. Tribes where that guy was allowed to live ended up extinct.

Our social brain is still wired to live as hunter gatherers in the savanna. We're all primitives, Africans lynching witches is little different from crucifixion by social media mob.

 

[Bland Crumbs]

Oh boy, China made Twitter!

Better late than never, Eastasia.

Chinker?
Chitter?
Disappearer?

 

[Miller]

As usual, the chinese people are beta testing it and the final version will be applied to the western countries a couple of years later.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

How much more pressure would it take for the Chinese people to overthrow their own government? I'm just curious how far their faces have to be pushed into the mud before they start pushing back.

While this sounds like it would do its job, there will be a lot of collateral damage once mandatory report quotas are thought up by someone.

As if to imply this won't be abused by the most corrupt nation on Earth for CCP brownie points.

 

[Chiang Kai-shek]

Once again China is stealing American technology to catch up to us! Smh.

 

[Miller]

How much more pressure would it take for the Chinese people to overthrow their own government? I'm just curious how far their faces have to be pushed into the mud before they start pushing back.

The thing is, do they even have the will to do it, especially after the events of Hong Kong?

 

[Corpun]

How much more pressure would it take for the Chinese people to overthrow their own government? I'm just curious how far their faces have to be pushed into the mud before they start pushing back.

As if to imply this won't be abused by the most corrupt nation on Earth for CCP brownie points.

Unless something major happens, like the Three Gorges Dam breaking, the bugmen probably won't revolt.

 

[Unyielding Stupidity]

How much more pressure would it take for the Chinese people to overthrow their own government? I'm just curious how far their faces have to be pushed into the mud before they start pushing back.

As if to imply this won't be abused by the most corrupt nation on Earth for CCP brownie points.

You're talking about a group of people who, according to historical sources, didn't even rebel during shit like the Battle of Suiyang, where the Tang Dynasty resorted to eating around 20,000 - 30,000 civilians. I don't think they're going to overthrow the CCP any time soon.

 

[Ashford Lawrence]

The secret is that populations almost never rebel, they just sit and hope while their leaders murder them and rape their children.