The powerful CAC internet regulator ordered online platforms to "strictly restrict" posts on tang ping and had censors remove Luo's original Tieba post ("Lying Flat Is Justice") while a discussion group of nearly 10,000 followers on Chinese social media site Douban is no longer accessible.[15] Selling tang ping-branded merchandise online is forbidden.[6] In May 2021, Chinese state media Xinhua published an editorial asserting that "lying flat" is shameful.[16][17] In May, a video clip of CCTV news commentator Bai Yansong criticizing the low-key mindset circulated on the popular video-sharing website Bilibili,[5] and had attracted thousands of mockeries and slurs on the danmu commentaries in response.[18][19] An October article by CCP general secretary Xi Jinping, published in the Communist Party journal Qiushi, called for "avoiding 'involution' [nei juan] and 'lying flat'".[8][20]