Though I don't like being called a liar, I appreciate your objectiveness.
I will not post the sources for my claims, so if you don't believe me, ignore me.
As someone who once frequented the BBS mentioned and have friends who still do, I'm fairly sure about #6. You don't need to be close to the team. If you know how they became admins, you will understand.
Mod me down then. I'm just telling what I know. You are calling the summary "one big lie", but your own summary of TFA provides nothing against the summary except #6, for which I was trying to provide more information. You are basically saying, the stuff in the summary is mostly not new so it's not worth the fuss. If you think such a post on slashdot will make China look bad, you've obviously overestimated the political importance of the readers here. And I don't think the post made China look bad, either. From the responses here, you will see people are amazed by the fact that the admins can actually refuse without being put in jail. I'd say this article actually shows China has improved, though just a small bit. And I must admit I don't have the guts to post links that support my claims. It would not be too hard to find out who I am from my user name and the links. I guess I just made myself a non-anonymous coward?
1. Not just non-students. They are blocking all the IPs outside the university. That is partly why the students are protesting.
2. Of course. When everyone's real name is exposed, you don't really need censorship to prevent them from talking against the government.
3. I don't know about this one so I have no comment. The students there have been required to provide a true campus address when they register on the BBS for quite some time now. It's not anything new.
4. TFA might be full of opinions, but I wouldn't believe the government limits access to the BBS of the top university that produced the current president just so that people off campus won't see porn...
5. From the notice issued by the admins of the two BBSs, that seems to be a fact.
6. The admins refused to change the system, sent out a final notice to the community, and dismissed themselves. They are mostly student volunteers. They can quit anytime.
And, you need proof that Slashdot has no journalistic integrity!? No, I didn't read TFA.
Yes, you can. They are almost all student volunteers. It's not their day job to maintain the BBS. They refused to change the software, issued a final notice to the community, and dismissed themselves. The site is probably still up and running internally, but I doubt that anyone would want to use it now.
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Though I don't like being called a liar, I appreciate your objectiveness.
I will not post the sources for my claims, so if you don't believe me, ignore me.
As someone who once frequented the BBS mentioned and have friends who still do, I'm fairly sure about #6. You don't need to be close to the team. If you know how they became admins, you will understand.
And I agree with your last two sentences.
Mod me down then. I'm just telling what I know. You are calling the summary "one big lie", but your own summary of TFA provides nothing against the summary except #6, for which I was trying to provide more information. You are basically saying, the stuff in the summary is mostly not new so it's not worth the fuss. If you think such a post on slashdot will make China look bad, you've obviously overestimated the political importance of the readers here. And I don't think the post made China look bad, either. From the responses here, you will see people are amazed by the fact that the admins can actually refuse without being put in jail. I'd say this article actually shows China has improved, though just a small bit. And I must admit I don't have the guts to post links that support my claims. It would not be too hard to find out who I am from my user name and the links. I guess I just made myself a non-anonymous coward?
1. Not just non-students. They are blocking all the IPs outside the university. That is partly why the students are protesting.
2. Of course. When everyone's real name is exposed, you don't really need censorship to prevent them from talking against the government.
3. I don't know about this one so I have no comment. The students there have been required to provide a true campus address when they register on the BBS for quite some time now. It's not anything new.
4. TFA might be full of opinions, but I wouldn't believe the government limits access to the BBS of the top university that produced the current president just so that people off campus won't see porn...
5. From the notice issued by the admins of the two BBSs, that seems to be a fact.
6. The admins refused to change the system, sent out a final notice to the community, and dismissed themselves. They are mostly student volunteers. They can quit anytime.
And, you need proof that Slashdot has no journalistic integrity!? No, I didn't read TFA.
Yes, you can. They are almost all student volunteers. It's not their day job to maintain the BBS. They refused to change the software, issued a final notice to the community, and dismissed themselves. The site is probably still up and running internally, but I doubt that anyone would want to use it now.