I'm not sure that'll solve anything. Plenty of people with degrees are idiots too. And many people without degrees may have long running experience in topics they talk about due to other reasons than getting a degree.
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I get that you don’t want misinformation happening on certain topics. The scary part comes when you’re going to decide to police it. Can you still share info on the health journey of you or your loved one? Can you still ask people to buy your products that are meant to save more money in the long run than they cost? Can you tell people you had a bad experience with a certain bank? Not a fan of the approach, but I do understand the basic concept of why they’d want to do something.
Makes sense to me, for certain topics/areas.
Australia has a law about not being able to give financial advice without a qualification to do so, so 'influencers' who cover topics such as banking and investments do need to be careful about how they present their content because we dont want people going into financial ruin thinking "DollarGodMoneyMaker" on youtube is trustworthy and knows what the fuck he is talking about.
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Genuinely curious if anyone has info on how something like this is enforced.
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If youre an influencer with millions of followers a degree should be a small road block. Unless you dum.
If youre an influencer with millions of followers a degree should be a small road block. Unless you dum.
That last sentence seems to describe a great deal of "influencers" that I've seen.
Yikes
It's incredible that despite how shit the US has become It's still a better place than 1984 land
A real communist country would have a UBI that doesn't pressure people to become scammers and grifters, just to make a wage in a shit economy with little financial opportunities.
Its so funny to see people fleeing the US, meanwhile my maternal grandmother from China has a US naturalization oath ceremony like next week.
Jumping from one burning pot to another is so awkward, but objectively speaking, it's still a slight improvement.
Hope she's doing ok. <3
I know moving is a huge pain for the elderly.
She's been here for nearly a decade, she's fine I think. She lived with us, and she's very annoying, but she did take care of me back when we were in China and my parents were busy working, so I guess I should probably be more grateful. I'm although I don't exactly like her, I'm glad it'd become more difficult for this admin to target her with the soon-to-be citizenship status (not completely safe tho, but it's relatively safer)
I hope 2026 and 2028 goes well in terms of politics, because like... we have a lot of relatives in the US, it'd be very impractical for us all to like... move to Canada for example (because I doubt Canadian immigration officials would take American asylum cases seriously).
(Pls, some future time traveler come course-correct this timeline)
Good for China.
I don't think we'd lose anything of value even if we banned all influencers from speaking online on social media on any topic, so I can see why China's done this.
everyone loves censorship