Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

China Tightens Rules For Educational BBSs

Posted by Zonk on from the appreciate-your-right-to-complain dept.

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."

1 of 304 comments (clear)

  1. Re:A difference? by stinkyfingers · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.