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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."

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  1. Uhhh, so what? This happens ALL the time. Here. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Wait a minute.

    A BBS hosted by a public university is limiting access to university students only and not permitting "objectionable content" and we're all irate over how the Chinese government is censoring its people?

    Uhhh... do you guys realize that American universities do this ALL THE TIME? Ever heard of ISCABBS? It was, at one point, the largest free BBS in the world. But ONLY students at the hosting university can be in the upper echelons of administration! Ooooo! And you can't flame or post off-topic or the moderator will delete you and if you don't behave they'll kick you off. Ooooo!

    CENSORSHIP! OMG WTF!

  2. Huh by Safety+Cap · · Score: 0, Troll
    Mr. Yu Huafeng, one of a handful brave Chinese intellectuals, is still in jail.

    Not so "intellectual" after all, eh?

    Too bad he didn't go to another country before spewing his crazy stories about "SARS," "infectious diseases," and "government cover-up." Then he'd be free as an exiled bird, instead of Prisoner #324,394,883

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    Yeah, right.
  3. Re:My goodness! by Idarubicin · · Score: 1, Troll
    China is a country that will incarcerate your for not thinking what you're supposed to. China is a country that will put a bullet in the back of your head and sell your organs to the highest bidder. These people should be revered. They have true bravery.

    "Sell your organs to the highest bidder"? Charming. You forgot to call them the "damn Chinks" while you were at it.

    These guys refused a government directive, and their weak-kneed employer fired them. Good for them for sticking up for what they believe in, but I notice that they haven't been shot and their organs haven't been sold. They haven't disappeared. If I'm not mistaken, they haven't been arrested.

    Oh, and selling organs to the highest bidder would be a very capitalist thing to do. A good socialist would give his organs to a Party memeber who needed them, comrade.

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    ~Idarubicin