China: Bloggers Should Use Real Names

Wed Aug 22, 2007 4:29 AM EDT
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Patrick D.

Said the Chinese governent: "We have to be able to track down and kill all dissenters more easily. This will make that job much less taxing on our officials."

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    Reply#1 - Wed Aug 22, 2007 11:22 AM EDT
    {"commentId":969292,"authorDomain":"enathu"}
    Enathu

    There are more censorship have been implemented in several countries all over the world. Entire blogging domains have blocked by the officials of Pakistan and Ethiopia.

    But, some of the countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Egypt haven't blog any domains and even they don't effect a censorship on contents.

    Anonymous online blogging is a kind of criminal according to some of the countries that have implemented censorship on the availability of the information on the net.

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      Reply#2 - Thu Aug 23, 2007 5:55 AM EDT
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      Stuart Bonar

      I clicked on this story expecting it to be utterly depressing, but it's not actually all bad. However effectively Chinese blogs are monitored, either by government officials or the providers (under pressure from officials), if there are 30 million of them, they cannot hope to monitor them all very well.

      It is going to be interesting to see how well a dictatorship like China can (a) embrace massive economic expansion whilst (b) trying to maintain political control over its people - especially when they are dealing with well over a billion individuals.

      Let us just hope that they cannot ride two horses at once and that before too long their dictatorship falls. Well, that's the hope anyway!

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        Reply#3 - Thu Aug 23, 2007 6:29 PM EDT
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