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China Cracks Down On Mobile Messaging
itwbennett writes China is tightening control over mobile messaging services with new rules that limit their role in spreading news. Under the new regulations, only news agencies and other groups with official approval can publish whatever the government considers political news via public accounts. "All other public accounts that have not been approved cannot release or reprint political news," the regulations said. Users of the instant messaging services will also have to register with their official IDs, and agree to follow relevant laws.
... because everyone on Facebook has to use their real name and stuff.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
Peiople tolerate this when they are not otherwise suffering Materially. Arab Spring didn't get triggered when the general population is well fed, they triggered when people have problems living on at the conditions at the time (because they are broke?)
The supreme court is bound to overturn it as a flagrant violation of the 1st amendment.
No. Not all people can tolerate this. It's just that those who can't tolerate are jailed...
While you're at it, we should go to a mesh network. The internet was originally conceived tob e able to
withstand a nuclear attack by routing around damage and "finding" the path from point A to point B
by whatever path possible. Unfortunately we've discovered that it's faster to have internet backbones
than it is to have to have 50 hops to get to your destination. Encryption might help a little but what we
really need to do is figure out a way to have a more peer to peer system so there aren't bottlenecks
where everyone's traffic automatically has to go through and can be tracked.
Sure, it would be easy to root out the dissenters... but that costs you a productive citizen each time you do it. If you can prevent them from becoming dissenters in the first place, you come up way ahead.
Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
They need to defeat their own extremists in Xinjiang before going around helping others. They had an attack a couple weeks ago were 100 people were killed. The fact the government is willing to acknowledge 100 deaths only means the total was most likely closer to 1000.
As an Argentinian (if you know our recent history): No, people tolerate everything. People don't "uprise" spontaneously. People don't go out and protest.
They don't.
I've learned that ALL protests are organized by someone with a political motivation. Nothing more.
We're in a situation worse than what we were in 2001. And people just carry on with their lives every day. Humans are tame criatures, they will take absolutely everything and accept it. Look at the life in the Middle East for example. Iran, once a westernized, modern country, taken back to the middle ages by the muslims. And people didn't protest.
The Khmer Rouge killing everything and everyone. People didn't protest.
You'll see people oppressed all over the world. In third world nations, and in the US too. And guess what? People don't do anything. The ones in power take it all.
This would help cut down on the stupidity that "news" outlets in the US spread to the uneducated and or uninformed population
Yes. Freedom of Speech, as conceived in many nations, includes the freedom to speak irresponsibly. These nations may be destroyed by that freedom, which creates an ecosystem of mostly-stupid ideas that it is very, very hard for wiser minds to change. Or they may be saved by it, if nations such as China tighten their grip on information far enough that they overly limit the free flow of innovative ideas and legitimate idea-generating-and-analyzing debate.
There are people on both sides of the political spectrum who should never be allowed to publicly speak to the American public about politics again. Not because we may disagree with them, but because they are obviously wrong, and alarmist, and they are hurting America by their false contributions to the debate. So it is in many free nations.
Take a look at what real oppression is. The NSA is still evil, wrong and violating the rights of others, but you are allowed to complain about it publicly and privately all you want. You can even openly advocate seceding from your own nation, spread groundless conspiracy theories, and call your politicians a manifestation of the anti-christ, and the government will virtually ignore you and let your kooky little 90's looking website stating all of the above remain on the web. Doing this on talk radio or on cable news can make you millions of dollars per year.
Do this in China against the Chinese government and you'll be tracked down and be executed or imprisoned.
Governments have become very good at making sure people don't rise up, and if they do protest that the protests are ignored and ineffective. It's very dangerous because now the only way to effect any kind of political change is via the mass media or via violence. In countries where the mass media is heavily controlled, that just leaves violence.
It's the same everywhere. In the UK 2 million people protested against the invasion of Iraq, and they went ahead anyway. Literally the only thing that would have stopped them was a violence overthrowing of the government. Fortunately for them the lives of some brown people in a far away land where not valuable enough to trigger that.
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