China has passed a new revised Secrets Law to tighten internet censorship. Now internet service providers and online services are legally responsible for reporting politically sensitive material and deleting it. Secret means any information which makes people angry with the Communist Party dictatorship.
How much the law will be enforced is unknown, as enforcement of existing law is patchy and haphazard. The Communist Party and its wealthy allies are above the law and the media has to make money. The legal system in China is a tool of the police; the highest judge has a lower Party rank than the head of the Public Security Bureau. Even the media has greater political power than the law; verdicts are often changed after media campaigns.
The CCP responds to this self-created lawlessness by passing more laws, simply creating more confusion in the process.
