• CyborgMarx [any, any]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    What happens if 5 of those crypto hucksters happen to have finance decrees and know how to hide their scams behind academic language?

    The Chinese left loses the Marxist streamer and the remaining crypto frauds gain the shiny veneer of government backed credentialism, hell of a risk

    • ConcreteHalloween [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      2 months ago

      Perhaps, but I suspect the way this will be enforced will be better than that. I honestly suspect this won’t be as harshly enforced as some people imagine, but really will just be used as legal justification for suspending channels that are spreading straight up scams and conspiracy nonsense.

      Like rather than going through the legal rigamarole of proving that a flat earther channel is conspiracy garbage just suspend them for not actually being an astronomer.

    • FactuallyUnscrupulou [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      2 months ago

      The Chinese government could create an accreditation that those crypto hucksters would not qualify for. Similar to ABET accreditation for science and technology degrees.

    • FuckyWucky [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      Yea especially considering mainstream economics is junk. So you can say bullshit like “unemployment is good actually”, “regulations are bad”, “welfare must be cut” as long as you have a econ degree?

      depends on how its enforced ig.

      • alexei_1917 [mirror/your pronouns]@hexbear.net
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        A Marxist-Leninist state should just ban the intentional spreading of that kind of blatantly wrong “economics theory”. Literally, filtering out capitalist nonsense so the people don’t have to deal with capital’s bullshit is one of the purposes of massive federal government censorship of the country’s media access and regime tools like China’s alleged Great Firewall. Anyone talking about economics who isn’t a Marxist should be deplatformed in a socialist state context. No one wants or needs to hear their misinformation.