For months, Chinese authorities have been cracking down on the country’s powerful internet sector, targeting an array of companies over issues from anti-trust to data security. Now, online celebrity fan clubs are the latest to feel the heat. The regime’s top internet regulator, in a bid to rein in what it described as China’s “chaotic”…
China’s Celebrity Fan Culture in Hot Water as Beijing Widens Internet Crackdown
August 29, 2021
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Chinese Anti-America Internet Celebrity Arrested for Running P2P Lending Platform
A Chinese anti-America internet celebrity and chairman of a P2P lending platform was recently arrested for alleged online fraud, which raised a lot of eyebrows among his 3 million-strong followers. Huang Sheng is the chairman of Chinese P2P lending platform Xitouwang. He has over 3 million fans on Chinese social media platform Weibo, and often…
Britney Spears and the Costs of Celebrity
Commentary A friend of mine defines a celebrity as someone of whom he has never heard. This is almost my definition too. Perhaps it is a sign of my tunnel vision, or rather tunnel attention, that world famous figures are to me often completely unknown. For example, while I had vaguely heard the name of…
China Insider: Social Media Celebrity Forced to Confess on TV
March 4, 2021
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Chinese social media celebrity “Labi Xiaoqiu” (small crayon ball) was formally arrested by the regime for defaming martyrs and forced to plead guilty on TV for questioning the number of deaths on the Chinese side in the Sino-Indian border conflict. The charge just took effect on March 1. Legal experts believe that this is clearly…
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