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China Signs Anti-Spam Pact

Posted by Zonk on from the step-in-the-right-hammy-direction dept.

Iphtashu Fitz writes "The Chinese government has joined an international anti-spam effort started by the U.S. and UK. Over the weekend China stated that it would join international enforcement efforts against spam by adopting the London Action Plan on Spam Enforcement Collaboration. The London Action Plan was launched after a conference on spam enforcement hosted jointly by the UK Office of Fair Trading and the US Federal Trade Commission in London in October 2004. It was the first international forum to focus exclusively on spam enforcement. China is well known for being one of the biggest origins of spam, with as much as 20% of all junk e-mail originating from within its borders."

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  1. Re:Good by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 0, Troll

    China appears to be taking a page from Canada in how to be a liked country.

    I don't remember Canadian mounties shooting people at the Gate of Heavenly Peace square in Ottawa...

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    "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
  2. Re:Yeah, like China really cares about the rule of by glesga_kiss · · Score: 0, Troll
    Buy something at Wal-Mart lately? Well it could have been made with slave^H^H^H^H^Hprison labor.

    Does your car not have license plates? Prisons in my country often do laundry service for-profit. How is this any different?

    their bellicosity toward Taiwan

    Any superpower would regard a self-proclaimed "independent" sub-state in the same way. Did you miss they day in school they talked about why July 4th is popular in America?

    aborting babies because they're girls and more

    We have "designer babies", where the parents are choosing the genes, not just the sex!! And if any of the eggs turn out to be the wrong sex, they will not be selected for insamination. No different.

    The aborting girls thing is mostly an racist urban myth. Apparently they eat babies over there.

    they pretty much let their hackers take pot shots at the US' infrastructure with maybe a slap on the wrist

    Gimmie ONE case of a US citizen being punished for hacking into an enemy superpower's infrastructure. Fuck, they'd get offered a job in NSA instantly!

    The US, EU and Japan aren't perfect, but they are a lot better than China.

    Agreed. However, China isn't as bad as it's made out to be by all the propaganda, and many of the people we call allies, e.g. Saudi Arabia are FAR worse than they are. How "good" country is in another countries eyes has nothing to do with idealism and everything to do with interoperability. If you are a dictator that's open to business, then great! If you are democratically elected and opposed to business, a coup will be along any time now...