Xiang Nanfu, 62, who allegedly sold fabricated stories to the US-based Chinese-language news website boxun.com, was detained by police in Beijing Monday. According to the police statement, Xiang, a jobless junior school graduate, made up false information including that Chinese authorities harvested the organs from living people, buried people alive and police officers beat a pregnant woman to death.

In 2013, Xiang posted more than 1,300 articles on Boxun, nearly one-third of the website's total. It sounds ludicrous that Xiang, who had committed several crimes before and was imprisoned nine times for theft, was authorized to publish articles as a "senior reporter."

Boxun is known for publishing sensational stories about the Chinese mainland's political system. Founded in 2000, the website apparently received political sponsorship and attracted a group of people opposing China under CPC leadership.

Due to the West's declining financial capacity, the competition among anti-China groups and websites for Western funding grows increasingly intense. Websites like Boxun keep lowering their political bottom line. The quality of the content on these websites also becomes increasingly poor.

Those who have browsed these websites are usually left with a basic impression: These websites spare no effort in exaggerating and slogan chanting, and are filled with blusterous posts featured by abuse of adjectives and stereotyped labels. The comments these websites use still retain the language traits of the Cultural Revolution era that have long faded within China.

But it is still beyond the imagination that Boxun simply outsources creation of content. It is revealed that for some months, half of the articles on the website were generated by Xiang alone. It is unknown how many people are still working for this website, but it is doubtful whether Boxun can still be called a news website.

Among such overseas Chinese websites, many were purely politicized since the beginning. Their declining trajectory is thought-provoking. They have not completely disappeared, probably thanks to China's rise that they are constantly firing at. But these websites are long marginalized even among anti-China forces in the West.

It is a spillover of China's domestic diversified Internet opinions that sometimes echo with the crudely made information on these websites. Some extreme opinions on the Chinese Internet come from these overseas websites and the anti-China forces behind them.

Internet governance is never an easy task, but the most important thing is probably to promote netizens' capability of discretion and immunity.

The openness of the Internet determines that people like Xiang will never disappear from this virtual space. But in order to further marginalize them, there needs to be more netizens who do not buy lies.