The Impact of the “Show IP Location” Policy on Geographical Discrimination Based on the Comments on Mainstream Chinese Youth Video Websites “Bilibili”

A new policy to show IP location is promulgated by the Chinese government in 2022. Since then, mainstream social media, including video sites and forums, has display provincial address of person who posted or article, meaning media users will be able see where article from. This paper collects comments from “Bilibili”, a site for young Chinese, analyzes content each comment determine whether they contain geographically discriminatory content. By comparing number on videos before after enactment, author found that increased likelihood geographic discrimination. In fact, are more likely notice commentator when viewing respond way relation Looking at downward trend comments, concludes decline partly due novelty features among Internet users. Meanwhile, summarizes four different types discrimination, regional stereotypes, opposing viewpoints generated unbalanced development, international negative nationalist mentality arises political reasons.