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[KitaYama]

A word with admins : If this post counts as politic and not social, feel free to delete it.

China has introduced new rules requiring influencers to hold verified academic or professional qualifications before discussing specialized subjects like medicine, finance, education, or health online.

The Cyberspace Administration of China announced that creators must prove their expertise through university degrees, licenses, or official certifications before addressing such topics. Platforms like Douyin, Weibo, and Bilibili are also required to verify these credentials and ensure that creators disclose sources, AI use, and any dramatized content. Violations can lead to account suspension, closure, or fines reaching up to ¥100,000 (around $14,000).

The new regulation, which took effect in late October 2025, aims to curb misinformation and improve content quality across professional fields.

China tightens the screws: Influencers now need degrees to speak on finance, health, law | Today News

China has rolled out a new law requiring influencers to prove their qualifications before posting about topics like finance, health or law. While officials call it a fight against misinformation, critics see it as a blow to online freedom.

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[The_Doc_Man]

Speaking as a moderator, I find nothing offensive under the site rules - it is a bit of straight reporting and you have not directly targeted any member. No vulgarity, no diminution of any member's reputation. Looks clean to me.

Speaking as a person, WHAT you reported makes a certain kind of sense, but I believe it would have legal barriers to enactment in the USA due to our "free speech" laws. Still... very interesting.

 

[AccessBlaster]

What could possibly go wrong.

 

[KitaYama]

Speaking as a moderator, I find nothing offensive under the site rules - it is a bit of straight reporting and you have not directly targeted any member. No vulgarity, no diminution of any member's reputation. Looks clean to me.

Speaking as a person, WHAT you reported makes a certain kind of sense, but I believe it would have legal barriers to enactment in the USA due to our "free speech" laws. Still... very interesting.

Those who are on social media frequently (me), can see a lot of nonesense posts by influencers for clicks and making money out of views. It's really frastrating. There was a post on instagram by an influencer, saying according to a recent study, women feel better sleeping with their dogs than their hasbands. In no time, the count of views was over 3 million, 2 million likes and 700K comments. You can imagin how the men reacted and how the ladies responded. I can send you hundreds of links to these type of reels daily, only from my feed.
So even this law creates some barrier for freedom of speech, I still think it helps having a healthier social media.

 

[Isaac]

Given the crap-heap that the internet of influencers has become (and thinking of how it's affected my daughter, that every blogger in the world now thinks they are an expert in dermatology, psychology and the like), it could be a good thing. There are some subjects you shouldn't practice unless you actually do practice them, medicine being among them.

While my disdain for Communism prompts me to loathe the restriction, yet another part of me says "that's smart"

 

[The_Doc_Man]

My own viewpoint is that nobody should be able to post TikTok "challenges" EVER... but as a qualification, you have to post video of you passing the challenge three times without injury before you can challenge anyone else.

 

[KitaYama]

My own viewpoint is that nobody should be able to post TikTok "challenges" EVER... but as a qualification, you have to post video of you passing the challenge three times without injury before you can challenge anyone else.

Doc, not everything on TikTok, Instagram or other platforms are that bad. I actually have learned a lot about physics from Instagram's challenges by following #physics or #technology. A great part of my abilities on design is from TikTok posts.

It's just like a society. You have good guys and you have bad guys. It's on you to follow which group. Limiting all challenges is a good step to protect us as you mentioned, but it also hurts those who are on the safe side of SNS.
physics.fun, developers_team, Javascrpt.js are my specials, and I spend most of my free time with #tech.inventions.
There are loads of programming hash tags, art, science and anything else you may like.

It would be a sad day for me if someone for some reason decides to put a stop on all challenges.

 

[Isaac]

@KitaYama I've only ever heard news/stories about the 'challenges' that are incredibly stupid people doing incredibly stupid things.
SO ... it's encouraging and good to hear from you that not all challenges are like that, some are to encourage you to learn and practice useful things.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

I will add this sad but DEFINITELY true statement: News media rarely t post about things that work as they should and are beneficial. They only want to post about things that go wrong in some way or another. What's the old headlines rule? "If it bleeds, it leads."

 

[KitaYama]

I've only ever heard news/stories about the 'challenges' that are incredibly stupid

News media rarely t post about things that work as they should and are beneficial.

Yesterday, TikTok taught me that I can use variables in CSS

Some challenges from TikTok and Instagram:

answer :
Total force on the center of mass of the rope: 0N
Stress on the rope: 20 N / A (where A is cross-sectional area)
Tension (measured at each end): 20N

Answer:
((1200-900)/1200)*100=0.25*100 =25
OR
(decrease/original) * 100 = (900/1200) * 100 = 25

Answer :
In absolute terms and taking nothing else into consideration velocity speed and distance, all three cars will get to point B in 5 hours (or 300 minutes or 18,000 seconds).
80÷16 = 90÷18 = 70÷14 = 5 hours
However, if the paths are taken into account as well, which means car C will need to slow down at some point, cars A and B should arrive at the same time, whilst C may arrive slightly after. This also doesn't take into account of hills either. But in very simple terms, with nothing but velocity and distance taken into account, all 3 cars would arrive at the same time.

 

[KitaYama]

Given the crap-heap that the internet of influencers has become (and thinking of how it's affected my daughter,

I don’t know how old your daughter is, but if I were you, I’d start by learning what she’s truly interested in, her hobbies, her passions, and what takes her attention the most. When I know that, I can introduce her to a series of hashtags or online communities related to those interests.

You can’t really protect her by taking away her phone or cutting off her internet or lecture her for hours. As I said earlier, social media is just another type of the society we all live in. At some point, she’ll become an adult and will have to live it on her own. The best thing you can do is teach her how to stay focused on her abilities and values, instead of following meaningless trends or those crap-heap influencers. Once she finds her path, she’ll naturally know how to stay away from what’s harmful.

Most parents, unfortunately, choose the old methods of taking away the phone or impose strict restrictions, thinking that will solve the problem. But those kids eventually grow up, gain their freedom, and enter a wild society unprepared. They were controlled but never taught how to think and act independently.

 

[Isaac]

Most parents, unfortunately, choose the old methods of taking away the phone or impose strict restrictions, thinking that will solve the problem. But those kids eventually grow up, gain their freedom, and enter a wild society unprepared. They were controlled but never taught how to think and act independently.

I think there is a time for doing the more severe stuff, but it's mostly at a quite young age