China censors videos showing ‘sadness’ and poverty. It is Xi Jinping’s ‘propaganda’ World news
Chinese authorities are cracking down on videos showing poverty in the country on social media platforms, a report says. Videos showing “sadness” due to the economic situation were removed from social media at the behest of Xi Jinping.
The New York Times reported the Cyberspace Administration of China’s March announcement in which they said that anyone who publishes videos or posts “intentionally discourages, incites condemnation, creates harmful information that damages the image of the Party and the government, and disrupt economic and social development” will be punished. With this, showing people facing economic neglect or hardship will be a criminal offense in China.
This came as a content creator named Hu interviewed a 78-year-old Chinese widow in the southwestern city of Chengdu. In the video, the woman is seen struggling to buy rice while crying. The video was later removed from social media and Hu’s account was permanently banned from two major video platforms in China, the report said.
A thread on Zhihu, the Chinese version of Quora, was also noticed where people were seen discussing poverty in China, he added, with the aim of ensuring that the reputation of Xi Jinping’s Communist Party of China was not affected. .
The party has stepped up its poverty eradication campaign as Xi Jinping launched a “common prosperity” plan in 2021 which celebrates China’s “complete victory in the fight against poverty.”
