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."

Comments

Re:A difference?

[stinkyfingers]

It is not in the PUBLIC interest for you to be looking at slashdot, posting to wikis, or surfing porn at school. The community has (in thoery) come to a certain set of agreed-upon standards for Internet usage in your high school.

In China, the community did not set the standards for Internet usage; the government did. Just because we have free speech here doesn't mean you can surf porn at school.

I would also like to add that tomorrow you don't sleep through your U.S. Government class. If you've already taken that class, retake it.

You think that's oppression?

[micsmith]

This kind of oppression is nothing compared to the persecution of good people that's going on there:
http://clearwisdom.net/emh/special_column/death_ca ses/death_list.html

But what is Falun Gong? Click here(video) or here(website)

Re:The slashdot summary is full of lies

[Phoenix von Kanton]

1. Not just non-students. They are blocking all the IPs outside the university. That is partly why the students are protesting.
2. Of course. When everyone's real name is exposed, you don't really need censorship to prevent them from talking against the government.
3. I don't know about this one so I have no comment. The students there have been required to provide a true campus address when they register on the BBS for quite some time now. It's not anything new.
4. TFA might be full of opinions, but I wouldn't believe the government limits access to the BBS of the top university that produced the current president just so that people off campus won't see porn...
5. From the notice issued by the admins of the two BBSs, that seems to be a fact.
6. The admins refused to change the system, sent out a final notice to the community, and dismissed themselves. They are mostly student volunteers. They can quit anytime.
And, you need proof that Slashdot has no journalistic integrity!? No, I didn't read TFA.

Grandparent is mostly right

[r6144]

here are some relevant links .

All these are in Chinese and I don't have time to translate them (though Babelfish helps a little), and they are from BBSs, so they might not be all that accurate. Also, given current events I'm not sure that these links will continue to work.

I don't think it is dangerous in any way to post these links here, even if the government is as oppressive as you seem to think. Heck, I'm just helping you get the facts straight.

Re:Government sanctioned identity theft

[Anonymous Coward]

I have never heard of such a thing. I live a couple of hundreds of meters away from Peking University and i have friends who were there in 1989.

Even if people are not talking much about it and new students know very little about it, this would be well known. There are teachers at Peking University that were there.

So, a person who killed a student (who would that be except a brain dead solidier) would then prove this to the government and then suddenly become a student at Peking University, the absolute top school in whole of China? Relatives of the killed would not mention this to anyone? Other students would not notice that some people that entered did so without passing the hard entry exams?

That the killing should be a way to try to solve the population problem does even make less sense.

You do not know.