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China Bans Running Your Own Email Server

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the too-many-of-those-around-anyway dept.

Erwin_D writes "Under the guise of banning spam, China has ruled that running your own e-mail server has been banned, unless you have a license. To qualify for such a license, an 'e-mail service provider' must abide by some chilling rules: all e-mail must be stored for two months, and e-mail with discussing vaguely defined subject as network security or information security may not be transmitted. While the rules contains all the good measures we would all like to see to combat spam, such as prohibiting open relays and outlawing zombie network, the law is also geared toward controlling free speech. From the article: 'I believe that the intent to have an antispam regulation was a good one ... Unfortunately, it seems like during the policy formulation process, it got hijacked and went to one extreme.'"

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  1. Translation please by Expert+Determination · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    ... and e-mail with discussing vaguely defined subject as network security or information security may not be transmitted
    What does that mean? Was this story processed from Chinese using babelfish? Does anyone at /. edit or are they too busy writing stories justifying why they shouldn't bother editing?
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    "The White House is not an intelligence-gathering agency," -- Scott McClellan, Whitehouse spokesman.
  2. Re:So China is still a communist dictatorship? by justasecond · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "Economic policy does not have to relate to civil liberties"??? Have you read what I wrote? You *cannot* have civil liberties if the state is treating the individual like chattel. Communism is *not* condusive to civil liberties. Communism *is* condusive to slave labor.

    "China's hardly communist anyway". Riiight...That's what you apologists always say. "Stalin wasn't communist", "Mao wasn't communist", "Pol Pot wasn't communist"...Don't you fucking get it? "Our Dear Leader isn't communist". Don't you fucking get it yet? You get concentration camps and mass killings *every fucking time* you have communism because under communism the individual is just another fucking cog in the machinery of the state. Worn cog? Dispose of it.

    Fucking-a you "communism has never been truely practiced" morons piss me off.