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Chinese Police Get Power To Inspect ISPs (scmp.com)
China has issued a new regulation setting out wide-ranging police powers to inspect internet service providers and users, as the government tightens its grip on the country's heavily restricted cyberspace. Local media reports: Under the new rule, effective from November 1, central and local public security authorities can enter the premises of all companies and entities that provide internet services and look up and copy information considered relevant to cybersecurity. The regulation was issued by the Ministry of Public Security last month and released on its website on Sunday. It comes more than a year after a controversial cybersecurity law was introduced that has caused widespread concern among foreign companies operating in China. Despite its broad scope, the legislation gives few details about implementation, making it all the more difficult for companies trying to avoid its repercussions. Analysts said the new regulation sheds some light on how the law will be implemented. "That's obviously how Chinese laws go. First there is a big concept, then there is a sweeping law, and then implementing regulations will come in to flesh out the details," said William Nee, a China expert with Amnesty International.
The only surprise here is that they didn't already have the ability.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
King Trump
King Kong
which does not belong?
DHS will get the same power but probably too late.
This is the best way to stop terrorists.
And how did you think net neutrality was going to be enforced and verified?
considering the U.S. government has had this for a decade already, if not more, and can literally tap into any ISP, if you recall some of the NSA revelations in the last few years. But ofc when China can do it now, they go wild with their "police state" accusations.
Coming to a country near you sooner than you thougt.
I wish people would stop using this term. It's giving our policing organizations raging erections.
In all but some societies under martial law, such powers are reserved for the courts.
Have gnu, will travel.
"central and local public security authorities can enter the premises of all companies and entities that provide internet services and look up and copy information considered relevant to cybersecurity"
This also means any/all internet software/tech can be copied/stolen, not to mention all customer info!
And Western internet/software companies still want to do business in China?
I know this is about government abuses and the like here, but I would support more power of law enforcement to go after registrars (with a warrant, of course - not just on a whim). The companies that make the most money off of spamvertising - if you discount the spammers and the spambot armies themselves - are the domain name registrars. They are one of - if not the - most critical component in the chain of actually making money off of spam. Without a registrar, a spammer can't obfuscate the address of the spamvertised domain, and can't move it around when an ISP cracks down on their server. The registrars themselves have been playing hide-and-seek with domain owner information for years now, making it increasingly more difficult to figure out who owns the domains that are sending spam and directing spam business to. The registrars are happily spread all over the world (including plenty in foreign countries that don't give a shit about complaints from Americans) which means you need Interpol to get anything done (good luck with that!).
If we could get some ability to go after the registrars - and don't let them pretend they don't know what's going on or that they somehow aren't making bank in the process - we could have a useful tool towards slowing down spam. Instead, ICANN and the like have moved us in exactly the opposite direction.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
Word salad. The wild nonsense of a Trumpette.
With all traffic already being mirrored to several TLAs, *you aren't thinking dystopian enough, Marty!*
Also, only n00bs *force* their subjects to obey their rule.
True masters subtily make them *want* to obey and give up their freedoms.
No offense, but wonder if most North Koreans or Chinese defend their own abusers as vehemetly against their savior, as the average US-American seems to do... (Honest question. The NKs may...)
It's someone making fun of Trump supporters. "power to inspect there algoritms"? Yeah, this is something that comes up in normal folk speak.
It's just that the USA (and many others) are too.
I bash the US rulers every time they do this shit.
So I can as well bash Chinese or Russian or UK or German rulers.
I'd be more surprised if there *wasn't* a state on this planet that's a totaliatarian fascist piece of shit. I:s like in the last 10 years, they all got together, put their differences aside, and decided to become comic book villain batshit crazy evil.
You know shit gets real, if the USA, China, Russia, Saudi Arabia and North Korea decide to agree on the same policies.
We are going to have to fight these nazis one day
A lot of people i talk to agree. Hopefully when democrat party is defeated next month we will be able to crack down on there biased companies and media outlets like nyt, washington post and cnn.
Why are we even talking about this?
China is a sovereign country and it can do whatever it wants to do.
That's true of the Google story, as well.
It doesn't matter what China wants to do as long as capitalists can find a way to monetize it.
Hell, give out personal data as a promotional item.
Bribe the uppers.
Whatever it takes to make a buck.
Americans can't even protect its students, for crying out loud.
Physician, heal thyself.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
... country and America has a sexual predator as a leader.
Who's throwing stones?
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
Australia is well ahead of China in this area.
This is what your law enforcement and your government would like to see happen in your country: All things accessible to government and police at all times, and no one has the right to say 'no', and resisting means your life is destroyed. When you vote for people to run your country like you did in 2016, you're voting for this sort of authoritarian totalitarianism.
With states like california and new york and there liberal biased companies like google and amazong hurting regular ever day americans who happen to have conservative views we need to have a way to fight them back. Many people I talk to say it would be great to get law enforcement the power to inspect there algoritms for bias and to fine them if they are censoring conservative speach.
Troll botspeak if there ever was. Back in the USSR, troll,,,
Are ready to help and support all decryption requests.
Welcome to investing in Communism.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"