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Chinese Bloggers Encouraged to Register Contact Info
Raver32 writes "Blog service providers in China are "encouraged" to register users with their real names and contact information, according to a new government document that tones down an earlier proposal banning anonymous online blogging.
At least 10 major Chinese blog service providers have agreed to sign the "self-discipline pledge" issued by the Internet Society of China, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported."
dou.zanz.ded@tienamensquare
Delete "Bad" information? Is that the one with the evil bit turned on?
From the PHP manual: "Also note that it is your responsibility to die() if necessary."
And this is different from anywhere else how? Don't forget about the US government's electronic spying... At least China has the balls to tell it's people it's watching them...
Right and how many blogers are imprisoned because they don't like the government in the US?
How many people that visit the democratic underground are getting arrested for posting there?
Yeah really good comparison there.....
Also taking steps to make sure that the governments "electronic spying" does not catch you is trivial at best.
.... When the government decides to execute you for dissident activities, they can send your family an invoice for the bullet.
This is my opinion. To make sure you don't steal it, it's covered by the DMCA.
Is it common knowledge in China how much the government restricts freedom? Or is it something that barely anyone inside the country is aware of?
Technoli
And how many would have to disappear before someone wondered where their blogger went to?
So you know for a fact that 0 people are in gitmo for this, or in CIA secret prisons, or have been exported for torture for any of these actions? Oh, right they won't tell us who is in these places so we really don't know. They could disappear people for this stuff and we would never know.
Ok take off the tinfoil
The difference is you are guessing. Second it is a known fact that people get imprisoned in China for speaking out about the government in a perceived incorrect manner. After all you are still posting right? They did not come get you now did they?
I may not be a fan of the current administration, but comparing the US to China in this instance is a bit much. If I disappear forever, someone is going to notice. How many bloggers have disappeared in the last 6 years. I mean truly disappeared, not just quit blogging. Wouldn't their family, friends, or readers go public with the information they could no longer be found (you know, like going to the police or something). How long would it take for the story to be known to a large number of people after that happens? Has anyone even heard urban myths of disappearing bloggers? I haven't, and I think I would hear at least an urban myth or two if it was happening.
Really? So how did the USA wind up on the side that was against the fascists in the first place? Could it be because of deep philosophical differences, namely the principles of human rights? Naw, that would be too obvious.
Also, the Nazis never attacked the USA, it was the Japanese who attacked Pearl Harbor.
What would you suggest? Economic sanctions? Open war?
Wait... so now you WANT America to come and make every corner of the world safe for democracy? It's so dizzying.
I suppose it's to be open war then, unless there's some other form of "hard action" you have in mind. That'll be real good for the world. Much better than gradual cultural reform. I'm sure China will simply hand Tibet over without a fight, because they're pretty reasonable about having things taken away from them.
If the people of Tibet really want to be free, they should stand up for their right to self-determination, or at least representation in government.
...because "hacker" sounds way sexier than "code drone."
Really?
The original poster wasn't talking about China -- he was claiming that Post-9/11 America is a "freer" country than China, because relatively few Americans' rights had been abused.
Programmers (application developers or operating systems designers) secure computer systems from malicious users by denying our programs the ability to escalate their own privileges.
Pre-9/11 America was designed along the same principles: Governments, in order to secure the liberty of their citizens, limited their own powers.
An operating system isn't secure "because it hasn't been hacked". It can only be deemed secure when userland processes can't be compromised by bad input, and if (that is, when) a userland process is compromised, the operating system denies the compromised process the ability to take over the rest of the machine. Segmentation fault: Core dumped.
Likewise, a country isn't free "because no US bloggers have been imprisoned for criticizing the US government". A country can only be deemed free when a blogger can't be legally imprisoned for criticizing his or her government, and if (that is, when) some grandstanding politician manages to pass law like that, the law is immediately struck down as unconstitutional.
You secure a system by making it hard to compromise. When the guy in Marketing wants software to be automatically installed when a user visits a web page "because everyone hates installing software", the only correct response is "NO."
You secure a citizen's rights by making it hard for anyone, even yourself, to take them away. When the guy on the campaign trail wants to spy on everyone "because it's for the children", the correct response must again be "NO."
The wonderful thing about believing in a government conspiracy is that no one can prove you wrong.
Having no proof of the conspiracy just proves that it's a really good one, and therefore we should be more afraid.
I think we should be vigilant about protecting our rights, but let's be careful about assuming things that are unsubstantiated.
An important change for education.