方可诚

Overview

方可诚 is represented in the wiki as a Chinese-language media and communication scholar discussing youth social-media regulation, platform responsibility, and the public-health analogy between social-media companies and tobacco companies.

Current Profile

In the current source, Fang Kecheng appears as a Hong Kong Chinese University journalism and communication associate professor and as Xu Tao’s guest on 声东击西. His role is to organize the regulatory debate: he distinguishes social-media account restrictions from an internet ban, weighs objections about enforcement and evidence, and argues that platform companies should bear responsibility for harmful design rather than shifting impossible monitoring work to parents and schools.

His strongest wiki contribution is the institutional reading of the Big Tobacco Platform Analogy. He treats uncertainty, lobbying, research influence, responsibility shifting, and internal company knowledge as the important parallels, while keeping the social-media/tobacco comparison from becoming a claim that the products are identical.

Key Characteristics

• Academic voice on journalism, communication, social media, and platform governance.
• Guest on a 声东击西 episode about youth social-media regulation.
• Explains why imperfect enforcement does not by itself invalidate child-safety law.
• Uses the tobacco analogy to analyze uncertainty manufacture and delayed regulation.
• Shifts responsibility from parents and schools toward platforms that design the product environment.

Evidence

• Platform-governance role: #400 社交媒体的「大烟草时刻」：谁该为青少年的成瘾负责？ presents Fang Kecheng as the main expert guest explaining international age restrictions, product design, evidence disputes, and platform responsibility.
• Tobacco analogy: #400 社交媒体的「大烟草时刻」：谁该为青少年的成瘾负责？ has him compare social-media litigation to tobacco-industry tactics around doubt, lobbying, responsibility shifting, and internal knowledge.
• Parent-responsibility critique: #400 社交媒体的「大烟草时刻」：谁该为青少年的成瘾负责？ cites his argument that parents cannot reasonably be expected to police opaque platform systems and algorithms alone.

Qualifications

This page is source-bound. It does not attempt a full biography, publication record, institutional history, or account of Fang Kecheng’s positions outside the ingested episode.

What Changed

• Created the page from the episode on youth social-media regulation and platform responsibility.

Relationships

• 声东击西 - podcast context for the current source.
• 徐涛 - host and discussion partner in the episode.
• Social Media Product Liability - legal frame Fang Kecheng helps explain.
• Big Tobacco Platform Analogy - institutional analogy he develops.
• Social Media Age Bans - regulatory topic he discusses.
• Social Media Causation Science Wars - evidence-dispute frame he qualifies.