China ‘s ruling Communist Party apparently doesn’t want its citizens talking about history; political figures, war figures, or anyone in between. Those captured doing so are set to face the wrath of the newly enshrined and edited law that allows the Communist Party to prosecute individuals for slandering or “defaming” people or figures that the government declares off limits.
One shining example of this took place last month. According to wildly thin reports out of China, a man was arrested for ‘mocking’ Chinese Marxist leader Mao Zedong. Zedong as it goes was killed in a US airstrike in the Korean War after he lit a stove to make fried rice. The man took to the internet and posted the following message: “that fried rice was the best thing to come out of the whole Korean War.”
Most of the rules appear to come from China’s Cyberspace Administration which appears to be just another dictator arm of Xi Jinping’s already totalitarian government.