China’s internet regulator on Monday launched a sweeping two-month crackdown targeting “malicious” social media content, including pessimistic economic commentary and posts promoting “negative outlooks on life,” as concerns mount over widespread youth disillusionment amid the country’s economic struggles.
The Cyberspace Administration of China announced the nationwide campaign will target content deemed to incite “violent or hostile sentiment,” including posts that spread claims like “hard work is useless” or “studying is useless”. The initiative comes as China faces record youth unemployment of 18.9% in August 2025 and persistent economic headwinds.
It’s a trend that’s spilling over into the West, too.
Negativity is bad for business, so everyone is being conditioned to be as fake-positive as possible.
Ask Julian Assagne how much freedom of conspiracies he had enjoyed.
1 in 5 young adults is unemployed and the official strategy is 🤫
This really feels like their go-to solution in the past decade or so. Silence whatever they think is the problem and then maybe try to fix it later (sometimes by “fixing” the wrong thing). Tbf this seems to the goal of a lot of states now, unfortunately.
That’s how they’ve been running things since they shot all those college students in 1989
This strategy is absolutely unviable in the West.
Instead, the dumbest idiots with a useful narrative are given massive megaphones and drown out everyone else.
Say what you want, but looks like a pick your poison kind of situation to me…
Yeah I feel when shit will go down in China it’ll be huge not only domestically but internationally and we’re not ready for that. Thats the problem with centralized systems even if you ignore the issues with authoritarianism that there’s no hedging and organic oposition for self correction so you get these massive breaks like the cultural revolution and the Chinese learned absolutely nothing it seems.
Also, if any other country upsets it’s citizens you have a couple tens of thousand people riled up, millions max. If China does it, it’s going to be a quarter of humanity.
When China sneezes, the world trembles
Or something
Maybe they could employ them to come to Lemmy and argue about how great China is? SOLAR PANELS AND…and… dang it.
High-speed rail.
Insane how a handful of people can completely enslave the entire human species.
A small group of people who can agree on something can subjugate a large group that can’t.
For a little bit but it all comes back on them in the end.
Here’s a conspiracy theory for them: June 4, 1989
Absolutely nothing happened on June 4, 1989.
It was just an ordinary day.
In fact, it was so utterly banal, that we go out of our way not to talk about it because there’s absolutely nothing to say.
Whenever I work with Chinese nationals I like to schedule meetings for that day
How do you schedule meetings for dates in the past?
Skills
There is no war in Ba Sing Se.
“There is no war in Ba Sing Se”
You sure? What’s that giant drill outside the walls?
Must’ve been the wind 🤷
Coming to you in the US in 2026 and EU in 2027!
Currently in development in México, final date TBA
China is when Chinese people do things Americans have been doing.
NSA, Equation Group, black rooms, PRISM, Palantir… that’s bad stuff but it’s sorta in the background. Even the national surveillance startup tracking license plates and soon people… not that interesting.
But Chinese that stuff? It’s the only way you can show many Americans just how fucked these policies / institutions are.
What’s your social credit number?
Nah China is another level entirely. During covid people were litterally locked in their homes and screamed through their windows for hours at a time while drones were flying around telling everyone to shut up. The rest of the world still has a lot of work to do.
Damn, you believe that shit? LOL
I do.
China doesn’t allow freedom of speech or freedom of the press, so anything negative about them is true until proven false.
lmao
Turns out it was true, so hopefully you can learn something here.
I doubt it, though. You seem pretty average to me.
I don’t even know what you’re trying to say, but you seem hurt.
You need to brush up on your reading comprehension, then.
You need an adult find you a video?
Yes please. I’ll wait.
literally first google result: https://www.npr.org/2022/04/30/1095504456/shanghai-china-covid-lockdown
Enjoy
That’s harrowing.
Collective stupidity has to reach unimaginable depths in order for this to ever be deemed acceptable.
I feel when you raise people in that idealogy they stop being critical thinkers.
I only accept non-western sources when it comes to China. Sorry if that seems unreasonable.
Fucking lol
