New MySpace China Tells Users to Spy on Each Other

Anonymous Chinese Coward writes "MySpace has launched in China, the world's most populous nation, but this definitely is NOT the MySpace you're used to. Members are told to click a button to report any 'misconduct' by other users. MySpace's definition of 'misconduct' includes actions such as 'endangering national security, leaking state secrets, subverting the government, undermining national unity, spreading rumors or disturbing the social order' — according to the site's terms and conditions. In China these are all crimes which carry a hefty prison sentence. Any attempt to post content containing phrases that the Chinese government doesn't like, such as 'Taiwanese independence', the banned 'FaLun' religious movement or the Dalai Lama, produces the following message. 'Sorry, the article you want to publish may contain inappropriate content. Please delete the unsuitable content, and then try reposting it. Thank you.'"

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Self-righteous

[Anonymous Coward]

People in democratic countries are so self-righteous and paternalistic. They just hide all their auto-cratic tendencies behind an illusion of freedom. Instead of talking about Dalai Lama maybe we should talk about what happened to the puerto-rican freedom fighter Filiberto who was shot and left to die by the FBI...Did talking about that really change anything? hahaha. I can talk to the police all I want about wanting to run stoplights too...

all governments are the same. they all oppress innocent people.