China has introduced a new measure to combat misinformation, requiring influencers sharing information on sensitive topics to hold a degree in that area.
The rule, which came into effect on 25 October under the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), is reportedly aimed at reducing online misinformation and protecting social media users from potentially harmful advice or guidance.
Influencers discussing subjects such as medicine, law, education, or finance must provide proof of their expertise, whether through a professional licence or degree. Platforms including Douyin (China's version of TikTok), Bilibili, and Weibo are tasked with verifying these credentials.
The CAC has also banned advertising for medical products and services, such as health foods and supplements, in an effort to curb promotions disguised as educational content.
So you're saying I can't continue promoting dick pills that might cause people's organs to boil? 
Random internet commenters and forums are not "influencers". This applies to people building a brand as video personalities, not to random conversation between individuals. If it applied to forum discussion nobody would be able to talk about personal health experiences or offer one another support for health related problems at all.
It's easy to class identify this, influencers are petty bourgoeiosie (or aspire to be) building brands to seek profit while everyone that isn't an influencer is just working class.
This policy is misguided. China could simply pass a law against being wrong on the internet.
ok entirely on me for associating influencer with something like pghrt.diy
Don't get me wrong I think it's possibly to misapply this kind of thing if arseholes are malicious about it. I just don't think that's very likely with China outside of fringe occurrences. And we both know that those fringe occurrences aren't actually going to affect underground communities like that other than forcing them to move things around a bit.
The important thing to understand here is that an influencer is different to random individuals talking to one another. Randoms don't have audiences they are true subcultures of people. Influencers are media brands that hold very little difference to a television channel or a newspaper. Just because they have the appearance of being amateur due to only having 1 face of the brand doesn't mean they shouldn't be regulated just as hard, particularly when they have audiences that are bigger than most newspapers or tv channels.