In name only: I will break the chess game in Handong

Comrade Nie Xin, we cannot tolerate our comrades making such mistakes! We must always remember this!

The power we hold comes from the people, and our working principle can only be to serve the people!

Instead of standing on the people's heads, riding on their backs, and treating them like fools to be fooled!

We can't let the people lose heart!

Nie Xin was stunned and slowly lowered his head. The other vice ministers who were eager to try all turned their heads away. They couldn't afford to offend them. This label was too serious to touch.

Minister He, who was at the top of the table, was very satisfied with this scene. Sure enough, none of those who could rise to this position at such a young age were easy to manipulate.

"Comrade Chen Luo makes a lot of sense. We cannot allow this situation to continue. Just because we didn't do anything about it before doesn't mean it was the right thing to do. Now that we've chosen to launch an official website, we can't just manipulate the burning public opinion at will!"

However, Comrade Chen Luo, do you have any specific measures or plans on how to manage and curb this?

"Minister He, yes!"

The Cyberspace Administration of China also discussed the issue of building a civilized online ecosystem in the past two days.

In summary, it requires cooperation from multiple departments to ensure that the platform treats trending events fairly and impartially, avoids arbitrary traffic restrictions, and is not affected by others' meddling.

Of course, it is even more important to establish, improve, and standardize the use and oversight of official media.

Chapter 455 Meeting with the Heads of Eight Major Platforms

"Minister He, comrades, let me give you an example. I recently saw a joke online that says the first lesson in recognizing the dangers of society is to personally call the police!"

Why is this topic being discussed?

In general, this is caused by local police officers neglecting their duties, being lazy and inactive, and only caring about personal relationships.

The higher-level public security authorities ignored the issue and passed the buck, leaving the people with nowhere to turn for help.

It was only after much effort that it stirred up a ripple on the internet that it was instantly extinguished by a mere word from the relevant authorities.

This phenomenon is heartbreaking!

If public security bureaus at the provincial, municipal, and county levels all joined the platform without traffic restrictions, the situation might be very different under pressure.

Of course, not every event can cause a stir, but at least it left a way out for ordinary people.

Similarly, other departments closely related to people's daily lives should also be stationed here, including the judiciary, taxation, discipline inspection, culture and tourism, market supervision, labor services, education, health, etc.

If these major departments can all move in, provided that the platform is not subject to unauthorized interference from certain individuals.

Society can better unite its efforts, achieve greater public participation and oversight, and truly become masters of the country!

Minister He frowned upon hearing this, mainly because cross-departmental coordination and communication is quite troublesome.

However... if you can do this job well, the credit will definitely be substantial.

"Comrade Chen Luo, your idea is very good. I will report it to the higher-ups next week. If it passes smoothly, then we will implement it!"

If other departments are unwilling to cooperate…

"Minister He, regardless of whether we cooperate or not, our Central Propaganda Department must ensure the fairness and impartiality of the platform's promotion. We cannot arbitrarily limit or promote traffic just because someone makes a suggestion!"

“I agree with that. Let’s meet with the heads of these platforms this Friday. Comrade Chen Luo, is it alright for you to conduct the meeting?”

"No problem! Our Cyberspace Administration of China also needs to meet with them, so I'll take charge of it!"

"Alright, if there's nothing else, then the meeting is adjourned!"

Minister He got up and left, and Chen Luo also packed up and left. Among the remaining people, Hou Liangping was quite calm, but the others... did not look too good. To put it bluntly, Chen Luo's proposal was to carry out internal reforms.

Their power will certainly be affected.

But you can't fight city hall, so you have to accept it reluctantly.

Friday arrived in the blink of an eye.

The notice of the meeting had been issued three days in advance. At 10:30 a.m., the heads of eight major platforms were already waiting in the conference room of the Central Propaganda Building.

These are, respectively, WeChat, Douyin, Kuaishou, Sweet Potato, Toutiao, Baidu, and ZB.

The eight officials were all somewhat uneasy. This meeting came too quickly, the content of which was unknown, and the level of the meeting was extremely high. It was a joint meeting between the Cyberspace Administration of China and the Central Propaganda Department.

At 10:40, the meeting room door was pushed open, and Chen Luo walked at the front, his figure upright and his gaze sharp.

Upon seeing this, the heads of the eight families all stood up and greeted Chen Luo and his group with smiles.

He walked straight to the head seat and sat down, accompanied by two deputy directors of the Cyberspace Administration of China and two full-time deputy ministers of the Publicity Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, a total of five people.

Eight against five, but the eight men's hearts were pounding wildly. Just one look from Chen Luo was enough to make them swallow hard.

Chen Luo tidied the table, opened the bottled water on the round table, took a small sip, then looked at the CCTV reporter taking notes and gestured for the recording to begin.

"I've called you all here today mainly to discuss the following issues."

The entire meeting lasted for two hours, with Chen Luo's five people doing most of the talking, while the eight representatives on the other side were frantically taking notes in their notebooks with ballpoint pens.

He didn't dare say a single word in rebuttal...

Of course, Chen Luo was also very kind and did not curse, but his tone was somewhat cold as he discussed the four issues raised by the Cyberspace Administration of China and the two challenges faced by the Central Propaganda Department.

Seeing the eight people busy taking notes until their hands were sore, Chen Luo calmly asked, "Regarding what we just said, do any of you have any questions?"

"You can definitely bring it up and discuss it. We're not unreasonable or domineering. If you have any difficulties, just say so, and we'll give you a response on the spot."

The eight people looked at each other, and finally the person in charge of Douyin broke the silence.

"Leader, we have noted down your requirements. Objectively speaking, they are very helpful for building a civilized network."

But what you said about push and limit traffic...

If other leaders give us instructions, sometimes... it's really hard to refuse. We're like rats in a bellows, caught in the middle, getting bullied from both sides. In that situation..."

Chen Luo nodded.

"I'll say it again: no amount of back-and-forth communication can affect the fairness and impartiality of the network algorithm, including those shady transactions on your platform."

If anyone tries to interfere, push the blame onto me, the Cyberspace Administration of China, or the Central Propaganda Department. Not even a provincial party secretary can do it!

If you have any questions, you can communicate with the Central Propaganda Department and the Cyberspace Administration of China. If it's a legitimate reason, the Central Propaganda Department and the Cyberspace Administration of China will contact your platform directly. Apart from that, no one can interfere with the platform's traffic control, deletion of posts, or removal of content!

"Sir, we understand!"

The meeting was over, but Chen Luo knew very well that the results might not be as expected. If a provincial party secretary really gave the order, these platforms would probably still operate secretly.

However, apart from provincial-level officials making requests, it's much less likely for others to influence the platform. Besides, at the provincial level, people generally follow the rules and won't do things like that casually.

A new week has begun, and all platforms are implementing the terms of the meeting!

The first to be affected are accounts related to cross-border marriages, with 90% of them being banned for allegedly spreading false information. A very small number of accounts that were not identified as spreading false information were also affected by traffic restrictions.

Secondly, those foreign bloggers who relied on cultivating patriotism as a code for gaining traffic have found their new content experiencing a sharp drop in traffic...

In addition, countless accounts that created conflict were banned, and those that created storylines without proper labeling were given traffic restriction warnings.

The wind came too fiercely, like a surging giant wave, and swallowed these guys up before they could even react.

On Tuesday, the Central Propaganda Department, the Cyberspace Administration of China, and the Political and Legal Affairs Commission jointly issued an article on strengthening the construction, supervision, and law enforcement of the online ecosystem.

The requirement is that any fictionalized storyline must be clearly labeled as such; those who create conflict or spread rumors will be directly confronted by the cyber police offline.

These changes don't stop there.

Videos of people holding up their ID cards and making real-name reports on the platform usually don't get any attention.

Even if you spend money on promotion, it won't work. But now it's different. If you dare to spend money on promotion, you'll really get attention!

The news that an elderly man in Guangxi Province had his trees for 40 years forcibly cut down by local bullies has become a trending topic.

Chapter 456 Anyone can use power to oppress others.

Normally, such trending topics would be ruthlessly suppressed, have their reach limited, or even be taken down as soon as they appear.

But things are different now, and the officials in Mashan County want to cover up the fire.

But when the call was made, the staff in charge of monitoring the situation were no longer as responsive as usual.

Instead, they stated that they did not have the authority to limit the reach or remove works that did not violate regulations.

The comment section of the official account of Mashan County was flooded with a large number of questioning comments. As expected, Mashan County closed the comment section almost immediately.

Mashan County attempted to evade public oversight in this manner, but while Mashan County closed its comment section, higher-level departments did not, and a large number of comments flooded into the official account of Nanning City.

The people's demands are also very simple.

We must thoroughly investigate and give the old man who planted the tree justice!

Unfortunately, the official Nanning team was completely unaware of the situation and immediately chose to close the comment section.

Meanwhile, in order to quell public opinion as soon as possible, the Nanning authorities also called the staff of the Music Notes website to request traffic restrictions.

The response was the same as before, which infuriated some people. How dare a businessman refuse their request?

Ran Ying, the head of the Publicity Department of Nanning Municipal Party Committee, was the most furious and made a phone call directly to the top management of Yin Fu.

"Hello, is this President Han? This is Ran Ying, a member of the Standing Committee of the Nanning Municipal Party Committee and Minister of Publicity!"

At the headquarters of the Musical Notes, Han You frowned.

He is the head of the domestic music recording department, and not many people know his phone number.

"Minister Ran, hello. May I ask what brings you here?"

"President Han, I want to ask what your staff responsible for supervision and review are doing? Don't you try to suppress the hot topics about Nanning that appear online?"

Do you know that in just a few hours, hundreds of thousands of comments flooded our official account?

Upon hearing this, Han You understood the situation and took a deep breath to explain: "Minister Ran, our company was summoned by the Central Propaganda Department and the Cyberspace Administration of China just two days ago. To be honest, the reason why we can't arbitrarily restrict traffic or remove content is that Minister Chen, who is in charge of the Central Propaganda Department, personally requested it!"

Minister Ran, please don't make things difficult for our company. We can't afford to offend Minister Chen, who has already made some statements.

Anyone who dares to ask our platforms to operate arbitrarily should go directly to Minister Chen himself.

Therefore, Minister Ran, our company is unable to assist you.

After saying that, Han You hung up the phone.

After hanging up the phone, Han You had someone make a complete record of the Mashan trending topic incident, along with his call log with Ran Ying, and send it to the email address provided by the Cyberspace Administration of China.

On the seventh floor of the Central Propaganda Building, in Chen Luo's office, his secretary gently pushed open the door and placed the documents on Chen Luo's desk.