Fascist China

https://www.businessinsider.com/china-internet-ban-criticism-could-suppress-coronavirus-news-2020-3

China has enacted a new law that effectively allows people to post only "positive" content about the country on the internet.

The Provisions on the Governance of the Online Information Content Ecosystem, which was announced December 15, came into effect Sunday amid dissent over the novel coronavirus outbreak. 

The law is designed to "create a positive online ecosystem" and "preserve national security and the public interest," the government document said.


The law splits online content into three groups: "encouraged," "negative," and "illegal," according to an unofficial translation by Jeremy Daum, who runs the China Law Translate project.

According to the new law:

Illegal content includes the "dissemination of rumors," "disrupting economic or social order," "subverting the national regime," and "destroying national unity."
Negative content includes "sensationalizing headlines" and any "other content with a negative impact to the online information ecosystem."
Encouraged content includes "spreading and explaining Party doctrine," "spreading economic and social achievement" and "other positive and wholesome content."

It also bars people from spreading rumors and "insulting, threatening, and doxxing people," according to Abacus News, a tech website run by the South China Morning Post.

Chinese citizens criticized the new law on social media, and a hashtag relating to the law was viewed more than 3 million times on Monday alone, The Guardian reported.

"In the future there will be only good news, and no bad news," one person said, according to the newspaper.