China Tightens Rules For Educational BBSs

An anonymous reader writes "China is tightening control over online BBS run by colleges and universities. Educational institutions in China have received direct orders from the Chinese Ministry of Education requiring their BBSs to take actions including access limitation and registering users by their real identities, as well as strict content censorship. The admin team of the BBS of Nanjing University has refused to obey the order and has been dismissed."

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This just in:

[Neil Blender]

Oppressive country oppresses.

Re:This just in:

[Elranzer]

This just in:

Slashdot users who bash the US get modded troll but Bush-supporting mods whose only dream is a future Senate with a 100% republican ratio.

Slashdot users who bash China get modded troll by hippie Sinophile mods who think CHina or India will be the future superpower and vote Nader.

Slashdot users who bash both the US and China in same post (and hint that they live in some better "paradise" such as Canada, Europe or Australia") get modded insightful by mods thinking it shows both views of the argument.

Tragic

[proteonic]

Tragic, tragic, really..

Well, I'm off to but cheap clothes and electronics!

No Chinese Left Behind

[Tackhead]

> Educational institutions in China have received direct orders from the Chinese Ministry of Education requiring their BBSs to take actions including access limitation and registering users by their real identities, as well as strict content censorship.

Validated identities are required for anybody in a school in order to protect our children from those who might attempt to infiltrate our schools and victimize them. Content "censorship" is nothing more than ensuring they're not exposed to content that they're not ready for. Hell, I'm an adult who likes b00bies, and I was kinda grossed out by Janet's.

Oh, wait, this is China we're talking about. The totalitarian state. Umm, censorship is bad, mmkay?

> The admin team of the BBS of Nanjing University has refused to obey the order and has been dismissed.

"miss". So that's how they're spelling "appear" these days. Man, these kids and their SMS/TXT speak.

Re:Admins with backbone

[alecks]

And by dismissed I mean tourtured and executed.

Re:A difference?

[Anonymous Coward]

Because this is America, and when we do something bad, it's because we have a good reason (national security, the children, etc). When our official enemies/rivals do it, it's becaue they are evil. Didn't you get the memo?