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China Set To Ban All Foreign Media From Publishing Online (independent.co.uk)
schwit1 writes: A new directive issued by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has said that companies which have foreign ownership (at least, in part) will be stopped from publishing words, pictures, maps, games, animation and sound of an 'informational and thoughtful nature' unless they have approval from the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television.
Didn't check that one did they ?
Will this mean the end of Slashdot? We were just getting used to the progressive changes of the new owners. But without China's approval, whatever can we do?
...before the US and EU follows suit. You will only be allowed on the Internet with approved devices and approved content. You don't think this is possible? Think of the children and the terrorists! Why do you hate children and don't you want to protect your Freedoms?
If it only covers things which are 'informational and thoughtful nature', most companies should be fine :D
Censorship has always been policy #1. If you don't give the government the ability to take things down they deem inappropriate on their own, you don't get to do business in China. For all those who had hope that things would get better under Xi...it's actually gotten worse. It's a sign that the CCP is worried about losing iron-grip control of the people as they begin to become more enlightened through education, trips abroad, positive interactions with foreigners (it used to be part of indoctrination in schools to talk about how awful the West is), etc.
I suspect that even in China, this will get watered down a bit given that there are very powerful people in China that have business models that will be highly inconvenienced by this.
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
To be clear, they're the guys with the tanks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
All of the media.
http://www.rasmussenreports.co...
If you want it printed online that is...
"Imagination is more important than knowledge" - Einstein
everybody has an opinion on Da ISH. most do not correspond to those of the ruling party congress. so you just decreed you are pulling the plug.
do it. be done with it.
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
Since all they do is copy other people's media, all they have to do is set up a china branch and keep doing what they always do. Side-effect: The foreign media will thus leak into china verbatim even though it wasn't originally published there.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
Mainland China: The new 'AOL'. 'World Wide Web'? What is this thing of which you speak? There is only ChinaWeb! Why would you need anything else? Are you suffering from a mental illness? Perhaps we should 'hospitalize' you and 'treat you' for your 'mental illness' until you're free of these delusions about a 'World Wide Web'. Perhaps we'd better 'quarrantine' your family, too, just in case it's something contagious..
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
China's getting annoyed again with those that refer to Taiwan separately from the PRC on their maps, etc.
Good luck with that.
The country is prosperous, the state is firmly in power without any real challenge to it... Why do they feel the need to micromanage the Internet this way?
China's going through a very interesting transition period, and they're doing a lot of things that the average citizen might not agree with. It kind of makes sense in their society to crack down further on dissent at this point. For example, it's coming to light now that those "ghost cities" that the West laughed off as pyramid-building are actually part of a mass-urbanization movement. China's going to take hundreds of millions of rural farmers and move them to cities to jump-start their consumer-driven phase of economic development. Pulling something like that off requires total control over the population and the messaging around it. It will be very interesting to see if this can be done successfully -- the Cultural Revolution or Great Leap Forward didn't produce the expected results, and the Soviet crash program of industrialization had major side effects.
Now, how in the world do you enforce a ban like this? I guess the Chinese versions of internationally-owned news services are off limits now?
I appreciate their directness. Usually such rulers call it "subversive" material. This time they call it "thoughtful" material.
I don't know whether that's a step up on the maturity ladder, or a new brand of bureaucratic silliness.
Table-ized A.I.
Will Slashdot be affected by this? Will it no longer be accessible in China?
Slashdot is accessible in China, always has been, and will likely continue to be. This law only affects material hosted in China. The Chinese government doesn't care much about material published in English, unless it is overtly political.
If Slashdot started supporting utf8, so that people could post in Chinese, the situation might change. But we all know that will never happen.
You have it backwards. When China was poor but growing, the government only had to grow the economy, and people are forgiving on other things for the sake of making a better economic life. Now however, with China prosperous, people want to improve the quality of life - "public goods" as political scientists call it. They want cleaner governance and a reduction in graft, fair and impartial justice, regulations of things like food safety, social safety nets, government that better responds to local needs, social liberalization, etc. These are interlocking demands that require greater transparency and accountability of the government... things that while possible even under the Chinese one party system, would still require senior CCP members to give up their lucrative side businesses and constrain their activities which is very, very hard to do.
If Slashdot started supporting utf8, so that people could post in Chinese, the situation might change. But we all know that will never happen.
Well played, sir.
A ruling like this could act as a major barrier against foreign companies of all sorts. For example, are service manuals or software updates covered? If so, this could act as a barrier against almost any imported manufactured product.
China is gearing up for an attack by the US. The precursor will be internal dissent. China isn't thick - they know what the Arab Spring really was, and who was behind it.
All nations should be on alert for a new US sponsored Color Revolution. And China and Russia are certainly front footed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_revolution
In post Patriot Act America, the library books scan you.
Here's my publication of an informational and thoughtful nature on this ban:
"F**k off you ridiculous tin-pot dictator twerps."
How does that look via google translate?
Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?