The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) recently issued the “Regulations on the Ecological Governance of Cyber Information Content,” which states that online content producers must not produce, copy, or publish contents that “endanger national security, leak state secrets, subvert state power, or disrupt national unity.” The regulation is to be implemented starting March 1, 2020.
The regulation encourages Internet content producers to generate, copy, and publish information that “promotes Xi Jinping thoughts, accurately and vividly interpret socialist roads, theories, systems, and culture with Chinese characteristics, and positive contents that “promote socialist core values, excellent moral culture and the spirit of the times, and fully display the Chinese nation’s upward spirit.”
In addition, the regulation states that online content producers must not produce, copy, or publish illegal information that contains contents that “endanger national security, leak state secrets, subvert state power, and disrupt national unity” and information that “damages national honor and interests.” They should take measures to prevent and resist the production, copying, and release of bad messages containing content that “uses exaggerated titles, is seriously inconsistent with the title” and contains information that “hypes scandals, love affairs, and misdeeds.”
Source: Central News Agency, December 20, 2019
https://www.cna.com.tw/news/acn/201912200233.aspx