China Bars Influencers From Discussing Professional Topics Without Degrees
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China has introduced a new law requiring influencers to have degrees to discuss professional topics, sparking debate among netizens about its potential impact on free speech and expertise validation.
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We need to shrink government power worldwide, government will never give us our freedoms and rights back if we give them up.
I think a better answer would be find some way to flag actual experts as such and everyone else as "peanut gallery". Everyone would still be free to say what they want, but without the risk that we mistake the local meth aficionado for a cancer expert and get grandma killed.
It would be hard or maybe impossible to do in a way that preserves privacy though.
Or can a TV host read from the script without any legal liability?