‘Fans bought large quantities of milk just to get the voting code printed under the bottle cap. Who can drink it all? ” Said Zhang, an official from China’s Cyber Administration.
On May 8, the China Cyber Administration (CAC) announced that the act of encouraging fans to support the blind, illogical idol would be severely punished, according to the report. Global Times.
The announcement was made after the fan dumped 270,000 bottles of milk to scan the QR code, voted for trainees in the program Thanh Xuan Co You 3, causing public outrage. Specifically, CAC said it will conduct a campaign “Transparency and Positive” with the aim of handling illegal and illegal acts on social networks related to the entertainment field. The agency confirmed that it would issue a regulation on the interaction between the management company, artists and fans on social networks, and rectify the speculation and profit from the form of voting and bullying. online. Before that, in early May, the idol selection program Youth have friends 3 was forced to pause recording because of a scandal during the contestant election process. 
A clip circulated on the Internet showed that fans hired workers dumped a series of milk cartons down the drain after buying milk, taking QR codes to vote for the artist. According to the CCTV , up to 270,000 milk cans were dumped to get the voting code. On May 6, the program producer iQiYi and sponsor Zheng Guo Ji apologized for the wasteful voting method that negatively affected public opinion. Zhang Yongjun, an official at the Cyber Management Bureau, told a press conference on May 8 that this kind of unreasonable, wasteful voting is just one of a series of prominent issues on social media platforms. “We will take comprehensive measures to address this situation. In addition to directing young people to actively support their idols, the agency and sponsoring businesses also need to revamp their operations,” he said. Zhang said. He added: “Fans bought such a large amount of milk just to get the voting code printed under the bottle cap. Who can drink it all?”. In addition, the CAC also takes measures to remove negative information online, tighten regulations operating on platforms such as online violence, malicious marketing …
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