Yahoo China, MSN China and other blog providers in China have signed a code of conduct for their blogging operations that committed them to protecting the interests of the Chinese state. The pact ask the Internet firms to register the real names, addresses and other personal details of the bloggers, and then keep this information. The firms should also delete any "illegal or bad messages." Along with sex and violence, China's communist rulers have also deemed that opinions critical of it or the spreading of democratic ideology are not allowed. International press freedom group Reporters Without Borders condemned the new blogging pact: "The Chinese government has yet again forced Internet sector companies to cooperate on sensitive issues. In this case blogger registration and blog content.”
News source: Physorg
News source: Physorg
Maybe they'll delete you too.
OMG! They don't want porn, violence and disrespect :o :o Let's run like headless chickens and scream "No freedom of speech! We can't insult people!!"
I didn't live in South Africa during the apartheid, does it mean I can't think that was wrong?
I don't live in Darfur, I guess I must visit to comment?
I've never been to China but I feel that flooding out an area with more than 1.5 million and causing many people to end up homeless was/is probably a bad thing.
Then they claim its all to provide cheaper power for China... when looking at figures everyone else suggests that this wont be the case. One Journalist published a book about this in China and got jailed for almost a year - this isn't protecting people from violence or stopping porn, its just making people disappear from telling what may be the real facts.
I didn't live in South Africa during the apartheid, does it mean I can't think that was wrong?
I don't live in Darfur, I guess I must visit to comment?
Of course you can comment without experiencing a certain culture/place in person.
But by experiencing in person, your comment will be more mature and more down-to-earth rather than like childish whine and bitch.
wow big news, like only China is doing this?
haha
I think you are talking a bigger political issue here than just freedom of speech. However, I don't think "servants" is a good description of China's inhabitants. I seriously doubt they are all being held against their wills and forced to do the bidding of the Chinese government (other than obey the rules).
I can't blame the .Com's for signing up
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