{"id":43908,"date":"2018-11-19T17:11:10","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T09:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chinamediaproject.org\/?p=43908"},"modified":"2018-11-19T17:11:10","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T09:11:10","slug":"tougher-days-loom-for-self-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinamediaproject.org\/2018\/11\/19\/tougher-days-loom-for-self-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Tougher Days Loom for "Self-Media""},"content":{"rendered":"

Our roundup of top media stories this week is dominated by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), which is having a busy time as it pushes a broad cleanup of social media publishing platforms, or “self-media” (\u81ea\u5a92\u4f53). New regulations released by the agency on Thursday ordered internet information services of \u201ca public opinion nature\u201d (\u8206\u8bba\u5c5e\u6027) or \u201chaving the capacity for social mobilization\u201d (\u793e\u4f1a\u52a8\u5458\u80fd\u529b) to implement a “voluntary” system of security evaluations designed to ensure that self-media — and even the unforeseen information products of the future — are under strict control.
\nThese new regulations could, in fact, have a deep impact on the vibrance of the self-publishing environment, and provision of services, on platforms like WeChat. See the relevant comments below from media expert Wang Sixin.
\nAlso this week, Hu Shuli, the founder and publisher of Caixin, offered a peek at how her media group has been performing since it introduced a paid subscription model back in October 2017.
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\nTHIS WEEK IN CHINA’S MEDIA<\/strong>
\nNovember 11-16, 2018<\/em>
\n\u27a2 Letters of contrition from former cyber chief Lu Wei put on display at National Museum of China
\n\u27a2 Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) brings self-media platforms (\u81ea\u5a92\u4f53\u5e73\u53f0) in for discussions ahead of cleanup campaign
\n\u27a2 Hu Shuli reveals the state of Caixin’s subscription model since introduction last year
\n\u27a2\u00a0Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) introduces new regulation calling for security evaluations for internet information service providers
\n[1] Letters of contrition from former cyber chief Lu Wei put on display at National Museum of China<\/strong>
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<\/div> Handwritten letters at the National Museum of China attributed to former CAC head Lu Wei. Image: Global Times Online.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nAs a new exhibit called “Major Transformation: Celebrating 40 Years of Reform and Opening,” opened its doors at the National Museum of China, visitors found that the exhibit contained “letters of remorse,” or chanhuishu (\u5fcf\u6094\u4e66), from Lu Wei (\u9c81\u709c) the former deputy minister of the Central Propaganda Department who for several years serviced as head of the Cyberspace Administration of China and was the country’s most visible face of internet control. Lu Wei was detained in an internal corruption probe back in November 2017, and plead guilty to charges of bribery in his trial last month<\/a>. A formal verdict and sentencing are expected soon.
\nIn one of the handwritten letters on display at the museum, Lu Wei wrote: “I was in severe violation of six major points of discipline . . . . and my errors were many, deep and disgusting, doing major harm to the work of the Party and blackening the Party’s reputation.”
\nA portion of Lu Wei’s letter mentioning his wife and his personal life drew particular attention online in China, some readers remarking that it had all the hallmarks of the marching of criminals through the streets (\u6e38\u8857\u793a\u4f17). Lu Wei wrote: “My conduct resulted in great harm to her, and we often argued about this. She entirely lost faith in me, and once said to me with grief and indignation: ‘I can’t control you, but before long the Chinese Communist Party will control you.’ How true her words have become!”
\nKey Sources:<\/strong>
\nBeijing Youth Daily<\/em> (\u5317\u4eac\u9752\u5e74\u62a5): \u8d853\u4e07\u4eba\u6628\u53c2\u89c2\u201c\u4f1f\u5927\u7684\u53d8\u9769\u2014\u2014\u5e86\u795d\u6539\u9769\u5f00\u653e40\u5468\u5e74\u5927\u578b\u5c55\u89c8\u201d \u53cd\u8150\u6210\u679c\u5f15\u89c2\u4f17\u70b9\u8d5e \u9c81\u709c\u7b49\u591a\u540d\u843d\u9a6c\u9ad8\u5b98\u5fcf\u6094\u4e66\u66dd\u5149<\/a>
\nCentral Discipline Inspection Commission (\u4e2d\u592e\u7eaa\u59d4\u56fd\u5bb6\u76d1\u59d4\u7f51\u7ad9): \u3010\u955c\u5934\u2014\u2014\u5e86\u795d\u6539\u9769\u5f00\u653e40\u5468\u5e74\u5927\u578b\u5c55\u89c8\u3011\u5168\u9762\u63a8\u8fdb\u515a\u7684\u5efa\u8bbe\u65b0\u7684\u4f1f\u5927\u5de5\u7a0b<\/a>
\nXinhua News Agency (\u65b0\u534e\u793e): \u4e60\u8fd1\u5e73\u53c2\u89c2\u5e86\u795d\u6539\u9769\u5f00\u653e40\u5468\u5e74\u5927\u578b\u5c55\u89c8<\/a>
\nAND: \u5e86\u795d\u6539\u9769\u5f00\u653e40\u5468\u5e74\u5927\u578b\u5c55\u89c8\u5f00\u5e55 \u738b\u6caa\u5b81\u51fa\u5e2d\u5f00\u5e55\u5f0f\u5e76\u8bb2\u8bdd<\/a>
\n[2] Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) brings self-media platforms (\u81ea\u5a92\u4f53\u5e73\u53f0) in for discussions ahead of cleanup campaign<\/strong>
\nSince October 20, the Cyberspace Administration of China has carried out a wide-ranging campaign to assert greater control over so-called “self-media,” or zimeiti (\u81ea\u5a92\u4f53), a term that refers to accounts on social media that are used for publishing activities. Since the start of the campaign, the CAC has reportedly taken punitive measures against around 9,800 accounts.
\nAccording to the CAC, most of these accounts are hosted on the WeChat (\u5fae\u4fe1) and Weibo (\u5fae\u535a) platforms, and also include accounts on Jinri Toutiao (\u4eca\u65e5\u5934\u6761), Baidu (\u767e\u5ea6), Sohu (\u641c\u72d0), Phoenix Online (\u51e4\u51f0) and other platforms. Some, said the agency, have distributed “harmful political information” (\u653f\u6cbb\u6709\u5bb3\u4fe1\u606f), have “maliciously falsified Party or national history” (\u6076\u610f\u7be1\u6539\u515a\u53f2\u56fd\u53f2), have “defamed heroic figures” (\u8bcb\u6bc1\u82f1\u96c4\u4eba\u7269), or have “tarred the national image” (\u62b9\u9ed1\u56fd\u5bb6\u5f62\u8c61). Others have spread rumours, trafficked in sensational headlines, included indecent content or committed other “challenges against the moral bottom line.”
\nAs is typical for such actions, the CAC portrayed the campaign as a response to “a fierce response from society” (\u793e\u4f1a\u53cd\u6620\u5f3a\u70c8).
\nThe CAC announced on November 12 that it would be calling meetings with major platforms, including those mentioned above, and holding them responsible for content violations. The agency said it would push platforms to work in concert to improve a “blacklisting” system (\u9ed1\u540d\u5355\u5236\u5ea6), so that accounts shut down on one platform could not simply reemerge on another platform, or under another account.
\nKey Sources:<\/strong>
\nCyberspace Administration of China (\u4e2d\u56fd\u7f51\u4fe1\u7f51): \u56fd\u5bb6\u7f51\u4fe1\u529e\u201c\u4eae\u5251\u201d\u81ea\u5a92\u4f53\u4e71\u8c61 \u4f9d\u6cd5\u4e25\u7ba1\u5c06\u6210\u4e3a\u5e38\u6001<\/a>
\nAND: \u56fd\u5bb6\u7f51\u4fe1\u529e\u7ea6\u8c08\u5ba2\u6237\u7aef\u81ea\u5a92\u4f53\u5e73\u53f0 \u4e3b\u4f53\u8d23\u4efb\u4e0d\u5bb9\u7f3a\u5931<\/a>
\nCCTV Online (\u4e2d\u592e\u7535\u89c6\u53f0): \u300a\u7126\u70b9\u8bbf\u8c08\u300b 20181110 \u81ea\u5a92\u4f53 \u8981\u81ea\u5f8b\u4e0d\u8981\u81ea\u6215<\/a>
\n[3] Hu Shuli reveals the state of Caixin’s subscription model since introduction last year<\/strong>
\nHu Shuli (\u80e1\u8212\u7acb), the founder and publisher of Caixin, one of China’s leading financial and current affairs magazines, accepted an interview on November 16 in which she revealed the current state of her group’s subscription model.
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<\/div> Caixin founder Hu Shui. Image from Caixin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nAccording to the figures Hu provided, the Caixin Pay (\u8d22\u65b0\u901a) service currently has 200,000 individual subscribers, and Caixin Online logs approximately 100 million page views (PV) per month and 50 million unique visitors (UV). Hu said that readership had risen steadily and was generally higher than that for competitors in the industry.
\nFor Caixin, Hu Shuli said, the switch to a paid subscription model just over a year ago, in October 2017, had been with the hope of finding a sustainable model for survival as a news media “whose core value was on-the-scene reporting.” Hu said she hoped Caixin’s success with the model so far might encourage other media to follow suit, and might also help to change China’s culture of rampant copyright violation.
\nIn an interview with the Associated Press in January this year, Hu Shuli declined to discuss subscription or revenue numbers.
\nKey Sources:<\/strong>
\nSCTN (\u8bc1\u5238\u65f6\u62a5\u7f51): \u80e1\u8212\u7acb\uff1a”\u8d22\u65b0\u901a”\u4e2a\u4eba\u4ed8\u8d39\u7528\u6237\u8d8520\u4e07 \u5c06\u63a8\u591a\u79cd\u65b9\u5f0f\u964d\u4f4e\u9605\u8bfb\u95e8\u69db<\/a>
\nTencent (\u817e\u8baf\u7f51):\u00a0\u8d22\u65b0\u4f20\u5a92\u4ece\u529e\u4f1a\u5230\u4ed8\u8d39\u9605\u8bfb\uff1a\u4e3a\u4ec0\u4e48\uff0c\u60f3\u4ec0\u4e48\uff0c\u505a\u4ec0\u4e48<\/a>
\n[4] Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) introduces new regulation calling for security evaluations for internet information service providers<\/strong>
\nIn new regulations released on November 15, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) required that all providers of internet services of \u201ca public opinion nature\u201d (\u8206\u8bba\u5c5e\u6027) or \u201chaving the capacity for social mobilization\u201d (\u793e\u4f1a\u52a8\u5458\u80fd\u529b) \u201cmust voluntarily conduct security evaluations\u201d (\u5b89\u5168\u8bc4\u4f30). The regulations are designed to create formal mechanisms by which the government can ensure that any and all internet services with the potential to impact the news cycle, set the public agenda or support collective action have systems in place \u2014 subject to regular government oversight and participation, and properly supported in terms of personnel and technology \u2014 to prevent \u201csecurity risks.\u201d
\nFor an initial reading and partial translation of the regulations, see our earlier post.
\nOn November 16, the day after the regulations were announced, WeChat announced that it would lower restrictions on personal registration of public accounts from 2 accounts to 1, meaning only a single account would be allowed per verified individual. For companies, the restriction would be lowered from 5 public accounts to 2.
\nWang Sixin (\u738b\u56db\u65b0), a professor at Communication University of China and director of the Internet Intellectual Property Research Center (\u7f51\u7edc\u6cd5\u4e0e\u77e5\u8bc6\u4ea7\u6743\u7814\u7a76\u4e2d\u5fc3), said that the change in restrictions on public account registration at WeChat had to do directly with the release of the new regulations by the CAC. “WeChat has both public opinion nature and social mobilization capacity, and the release of . . . . the new regulation means that WeChat and other internet information service providers that have both public opinion nature and social mobilization capacity will face much greater operational risk,” said Wang. By limiting the number of public accounts that can be registered by users, both individual and corporate, said Wang, WeChat can reduce the pressure stemming for the security evaluation requirements.
\nWang Sixin said the new regulations would have an impact not just on platforms like WeChat and Weibo, and on forums and video sites, but would also have an impact on ride-hailing apps like Didi (\u6ef4\u6ef4\u7ea6\u8f66) and many other services, from education to healthcare.
\nKey Sources:<\/strong>
\nCyberspace Administration of China (\u4e2d\u56fd\u7f51\u4fe1\u7f51): \u5177\u6709\u8206\u8bba\u5c5e\u6027\u6216\u793e\u4f1a\u52a8\u5458\u80fd\u529b\u7684\u4e92\u8054\u7f51\u4fe1\u606f\u670d\u52a1\u5b89\u5168\u8bc4\u4f30\u89c4\u5b9a<\/a>
\nWeChat public account “Media Tea Time” (\u4f20\u5a92\u8336\u8bdd\u4f1a): \u4e2a\u4eba\u53ea\u80fd\u6ce8\u518c1\u4e2a\u516c\u53f7\uff0c\u8fd9\u4e0e\u56fd\u5bb6\u7f51\u4fe1\u529e\u65b0\u89c4\u6709\u5565\u5173\u7cfb\uff1f<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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