The Cyberspace Administration of China will issue the “Network Information Classification Measures That May Affect the Physical and Mental Health of Minors” on March 1. Judging from the title and content, it is very obvious that this is because in recent years, China’s class contradictions and gender contradictions have become increasingly intense, the dissatisfaction of the people towards the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) and women’s dissatisfaction with patriarchy are growing, and the awareness level of oppressed groups across all classes is rising through struggle. Conventional means, compared to the past (such as the classic “rumor confirmation”), are less effective at deceiving the masses. The younger generation’s role in current class struggles is becoming more prominent, so the CCP is introducing this measure, just like the past clean internet campaigns, under the pretext of maintaining the environment and protecting minors’ health, to cut off the channel for teenagers to learn about class struggles and connect through the internet, attempting to keep them confined in an ivory tower. It is also aimed at preventing the people from further public opinion struggles. Events like Yu Menglong in 2025, the Wild Man Kid incident, and various past events have shown that the internet platform plays a significant role in transmitting information, and the enthusiasm of the masses is increasingly high. The CCP’s introduction of this measure is definitely with this intention in mind.
Looking at the content, it’s not hard to see the true purpose of the CCP.
For example, the second article mentions that their definition of “network information that may affect the physical and mental health of minors” is:
Information published and disseminated via the internet that may induce or lead minors to imitate unsafe behaviors, violate social morals, generate extreme emotions, develop bad habits, etc.
The references to “violating social morals” and “generating extreme emotions” are already very clear.
The classifications in the third and fourth articles are even more specific:
By deliberately stimulating, maliciously guiding, etc., provoking minors to produce excessive or persistent anger, fear, depression, and other extreme emotions;
Promoting behaviors such as ghostwriting, plagiarism, cheating, truancy, school bullying, etc.;
Promoting concepts like “reading is useless,” “score-only mentality,” “advancement-only mentality,” etc.;
These are all classic slanders of the exploiting class against the oppressed younger generation, accusing them of spontaneous rebellion.
It’s also worth noting the third point of the third article:
Inciting behaviors such as discrimination against groups, regional discrimination, conflicts, etc.;
The bourgeoisie labels the people’s expression of dissatisfaction with exploitation and oppression as malicious incitement, which is not uncommon. But I believe that the so-called “inciting conflicts” also has an implication of gender oppression. Gender contradictions have become an increasingly hot topic in recent years. Patriarchy has reached a shocking level, yet they claim to be “fighting against women’s oppression”; whenever women expose the oppression of the patriarchy, they are often labeled as “inciting gender conflict” or “discriminating against men.” The CCP’s attitude towards patriarchy and feminism is very clear, even “officially opposed,” as shown in the picture:
(A state media claiming that feminism is extremism is quite laughable)
And an article I previously saved that opposes patriarchy merely compiled some male chauvinist remarks, resulting in:
In the issued document, many cultural elements that the people genuinely oppose are also mentioned, such as sexual hints, regional discrimination, promoting smoking, inducing dangerous driving, etc., but these are all empty words. These toxic cultures that poison the people were cultivated by the CCP after restoring capitalism, especially the色情文化 (pornographic culture). Despite the long “clean internet” campaigns, domestic色情文化 (pornographic culture) has become even more rampant. All these are just excuses or pretexts. It can be foreseen that future internet censorship and control by the CCP will become more severe, but this also reflects their weakness. The reactionary ruling class has also realized the importance of winning over the younger generation.
