China issued its draft guideline for punishing cyber violence and online crimes recently after a high-profile “bullying” case emerged on the Chinese internet. However, Chinese journalist-in-exile Zhao Lanjian commented that there is effectively “no online bullying” in China.
Instead, Zhao says, the “crimes” are concerted acts carried out by the communist regime and its peripheral companies in the course of its online public opinion management process. When such acts are overdone and tragedies of different kinds occur, the regime blames ordinary Chinese netizens. The draft guideline is a typical tactic of the regime: blaming the Chinese public for its own misdeeds, Zhao said.
