China’s Propaganda Head Gets Appointed to Control Their Internet

What a disgraceful, oppressive, country. The man who was in charge of propaganda in Shanghsi, the equivalent to a MSNBC producer here, has been appointed to control their internet, promising to ban fuckers and delete news stories that are of the fantastical nature.

Additionally, he doesn’t like trolls or haters. Trying to remove haters from the internet is like trying to enforce patent law in China.

Good luck, Xu.

In a brief report, the official Xinhua news agency said Lu Wei will no longer head the Cyberspace Administration of China, naming one of his deputies, Xu Lin, as his replacement.

Xu, 53, was in charge of propaganda in China’s commercial capital Shanghai from 2013-15 before being moved to Beijing to become a deputy to Lu, according to his biography.

Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post said Xu is regarded as a protege of President Xi Jinping. The two men worked together when Xi was briefly Shanghai’s Communist Party chief in 2007.

In an article about internet management for influential bimonthly party journal Qiushi in October, Xu pledged to uphold party leadership over the Internet and management of the media and public opinion “without any equivocation”.

“There can be no turning deaf ears to or ignoring wrong points of view on the internet, fantastic stories and theories, distortions of facts to create rumors or malicious attacks,” he wrote.

“I definitely don’t see this as a bullish thing for foreign internet companies,” said Duncan Clark, chairman and managing director at BDA China, a Beijing-based investment consultancy.

He looks like a Chinese Goebbels.