A man in the Fengnan District of Tangshan City, Hebei Province, was punished for claiming he tested “positive” for nucleic acid.
The outbreak of the New Coronavirus (CCP virus) is spreading rapidly in northern China, sparking public opinion on the Internet. But in Hebei, Jiangxi and Jilin, several netizens were detained or fined by police for “spreading false information” after posting online about confirmed cases.
Recently, some netizens in Hebei and Jiangxi spread unofficial news related to the new crown epidemic in WeChat groups and were punished by the police for “spreading rumors” and “spreading false information”.
According to the news of Bohaihuan News on Tuesday (12), recently, the Public Security Bureau of Tangshan City, Fengnan District, according to reports, someone spread rumors in social software “I did nucleic acid test results positive in Fengnan District Chinese Hospital.” After investigation, the content is Chen Mou (male, Fengnan District) modified his nucleic acid report negative to “positive” and released to social software, thus circulating in the network, which has a negative impact. Currently, Chen has been administratively punished by the Fengnan District Public Security Bureau.
A man in Changchun was detained for 7 days after he said he found an asymptomatic infected person online. (Official photo)
In response to the authorities’ punishment of personal information posted by netizens, Shijiazhuang resident Wang believes that the police are too sensitive to information from the self-media, reflecting the inner vulnerability of law enforcement and those in power: “I think the government is afraid that such information released by the self-media will disrupt their overall arrangement to fight the epidemic, which means monopolizing the right to speak. Even if what you say is true, it has to seal your mouth. It has a monopoly, anti-epidemic, unified control over the epidemic news, which is to its advantage.”
In addition, the Public Security Bureau of Shunping County, Baoding City, administratively detained three people for “spreading rumors, violating privacy, falsifying facts and disturbing order. According to Global Network, Hao Moumou, a native of Shennan Township in Shunping County, privately sent private information he knew about others to a WeChat group, causing the information to spread. on Jan. 10, police punished Zhang Moumou and Zhou Moumou with administrative detention, respectively. The police said that the identity information of people involved in the epidemic and other related information cannot be spread online, do not spread rumors, spread dangerous situations and epidemics, disrupt public order and create social panic. However, the official did not disclose the content spread by the above three people.
Beijing rights activist Ni Yulan believes that the authorities’ strict control of online messages is to monopolize social information: “I think that’s to keep people from coming to speak, and if anything happens, you can’t speak, you have to keep your mouth shut.”
Strict control of the network of Internet users to speak about the content of the epidemic that was arrested
A man in Fuzhou, Jiangxi, was detained by police for allegedly spreading rumors about the epidemic online. According to the “Fuzhou release” WeChat public number this Monday, January 8 night, Hebei into Fuzhou people Gan a new coronavirus nucleic acid test found suspected positive, according to risk screening and laboratory test results, the man was ruled out of the new coronavirus infection. That night, some netizens distributed in the WeChat group: “this confirmed student has just died” message. The following day, the High-tech Public Security Bureau detained the person involved in the case, Wang Mou, and “Wang Mou fictitious facts to disturb public order” as the reason, Wang Mou was sentenced to administrative detention for 5 days.
Netizen Lu was punished for passing on the news that six people in Lingshou County, Shijiazhuang, had been diagnosed with the new crown pneumonia. (Official photo)
Fang Liang, a scholar from Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, said in an interview with this station that the police have recently detained a number of so-called rumor spreaders: “The reason is that the epidemic is breaking out all over the country and the official information about the epidemic is not told to the public. Only when the epidemic can’t be hidden anymore can we see what’s going on.”
According to the Hengshui Public Security Bureau, netizens in WeChat groups recently spread the news that “six people in Lingshou County were diagnosed with New Crown Pneumonia”, which was verified by the Shijiazhuang Internet Reporting Center to the relevant areas as a rumor. The netizen Lu has been punished by the public security department in accordance with the law, and publicly apologized in the WeChat group where he spread the rumor.
On Saturday (8), Hengshui City Internet Information Office and the city’s Public Security Bureau issued a notice to crack down on Internet rumors, especially those about the epidemic. In response, U.S.-based scholar Guo Baosheng told the station that China has adopted an information monopoly to cover up the truth about the epidemic: “The Chinese Communist Party wants to monopolize information sources, crack down on information from sources different from it, and punish, convict, detain, and fine people at every turn for rumors, which is very cruel.”
Last Wednesday, Han Moumou, a man from Handan City, Hebei Province, was detained for 10 days and fined 500 yuan for posting the message “There is a suspected new crown pneumonia in Dongzhuchang Village, please don’t go to Dongzhuchang” in a WeChat group, which was accused of being a rumor. On Monday, Jilin Changchun netizen Nie Moumou posted a notice about a new coronavirus in the name of Jutai District Disease Control Center, saying that the district “has an asymptomatic infected person,” according to the Rule of Law Network. Han was detained for 7 days and fined 300 yuan for this.
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