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China Plans Surveillance System for Internet Cafes
nasty writes "According to Interfax China, China will install a special surveillance system in order to prevent 'unhealthy information and websites'. All internet cafes in China will have installed the new system by the end of 2004. This according to China's Ministry of Culture (MOC). The system requires the customers personal information, such as name, age, and their national citizen identification number, before they are allowed to log onto the Internet." Reader Dr.Hair submits another blurb about the system.
The RIAA and MPAA have suggested the same be done in the US to save starving movie and music artists from piracy..
No more Chinese/Korean kids dying while playing Counterstrike.
Finally! The end of MSG.com!
Those damn Chinese, they stole this idea like all the other IP they steal -
This was actually a joint recommendation of the DOJ, Ashcroft, and the *AA's. It is being boiler plating to State legislatures during lavish liquor and hooker parties...
It's probably not just me, but doesn't it seems to me that the Ministry of Culture should probably be called the Ministry of Truth (or MiniTruth for short)???
I have 1 million monkeys on a million year contract to make me a better sig.
In Communist China, the Web browses you.
In Communist China the internet searches YOU!
I don't know about you, but I'm damn grateful that I live here, and not in China.
For the amount of tax dollars I'm paying, I want the the full working version, not the crappy beta!
Collecting this information will simply aid the police when investigating criminals and no law abiding persons will be bothered. You Libertarians always make a big fuss when simple and practical measures are taken to ensure the safety of citizens. I think we can rest assured that only criminals are the ones that need to be concerned about this.
You know who we're talking about, criminals, those evil doers that break whatever arbitrary rules that we in the party come up with designed to perpetuate and protect our worthless jobs and meaningless lives. But don't worry, we'll take care of things for you.
Well, the local beers must be truely awful if they are drinking corona regularly. ;)
Somebody needs to tell China that the Patriot Act does not actually apply to them, so they may carry on as normal.
They say the first thing to go is your penis. Well, it's either that or your brain. I forget which...