China Forces Websites To Register

Rodrigo Strauss writes "The Inquirer has the story that individual owners of websites and blogs must register with the government or face a shut-down. Apparently they will begin monitoring of all sites, both commercial and personal, beginning this month. Site owners have until the end of the month to register. The BBC has the story as well." From the BBC article: "'The internet has profited many people but it also has brought many problems, such as sex, violence and feudal superstitions and other harmful information that has seriously poisoned people's spirits,' said a statement on the MII website, explaining why the new rules were necessary."

Comments

From inside the great firewall

[SeanTobin]

everyone knows that this is really for the good of the PeopLE. the internet hAs poiSonEd our country as a wHolE and we must not alLow it to subvert our years of history, and tradition or Pollute our culture. i aM glad that our nation is taking a stand to assurE we stay united through this and any other time or crisis.

Re:From inside the great firewall

[databyss]

what is really Striking here is hOw foRward thinking and pRogressive the government is there. whY, don't other countRies follow sUit behiNd the great and powerFul cOuntRy of chIna?
i am always amazed aT that.

Re:From inside the great firewall

[B2K3]

when I think about the sheer nuMber of Those web sites that will be RAndomly shut down by the chinese government, i'm aPPalled. i mEan, Don't the chINese hAve their First amendment rights like everyOne in ameRica? TrUe, chiNa is not in amEriCa, but i wOuld think all cOuntries Keep IndepenEnt thought as right of all citizens. the FAr east, western europe, the all Can learn from american ways of Thinking, OpeRating, and partYing.

Sex?

[Anonymous Coward]

And since when this is a problem? How did they reach 1.3 billion?

Re:Proving the Red Block still exists

[notnAP]

Does Cuba have electricity now?

Re:...whatever.

[Anonymous Coward]

Welcome to the Wonderful World of Communism, my friend.

Re:The Chinese Internet

[Threni]

Don't laugh - you'll be getting this in the US soon enough...

Re:Proving the Red Block still exists

[Anonymous Coward]

In other news, George Bush applauded China's crackdown on intellectual property thieves. Journalists overheard him saying "If they can control the interweb, why can't we?"

Re:The Chinese Internet

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't worry. Soon the government will start putting some of you in camps, now that you can't fight back. Enjoy, mate!

Re:The Chinese Internet

[Anonymous Coward]

Isn't that a proof that anglo-saxon societies can't avoid crime without citizens porting fire weapons?

Re:Crime has nothing to do with guns.

[Leebert]

It's simple, if you want people to stop being violent, create a pill which lowers aggression and which prevents people from getting angry.

Dude, pass the soma.

Re:The Chinese Internet

[amliebsch]

I dont myself own a guy (yet) but I'm damn glad its an option.

Sorry, you might be disappointed.

13th. Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

If anyone has the manpower..

[Wescotte]

to monitor all these websites/blogs it's China. Just think of all the jobs it's going to create!