"China: blog providers sign "self-discipline" act "

[madrchsod]

"Under the new pact, blog service providers are “encouraged” to register users under their real names and contact information before letting them post blogs. More seriously, they will be required to keep this information, which will allow the authorities to identify them. These companies have already in the past provided the police with information about their clients, resulting in arrests."


http://www.boingboing.net/2007/08/23/china_blog_providers.html
Boing Boing: China: blog providers sign "self-discipline" act to nix anonymous blogging


also...............

"Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the confinement of cyber-dissident and blogger He Weihua in a psychiatric hospital in the central province of Hunan against his will. Relatives interviewed by Reporters Without Borders denied that He has any kind of mental illness and said they thought his confinement was linked to what he has posted on his blog www.boxun.com/hero/hewh/....

This is not the first time he has been confined. Members of the State Security Bureau gave him injections against his will when he was placed in psychiatric hospital in December 2004. When he was run down by a motorcycle in September 2006, the driver warned him not to continue his human rights activities".


http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=23365
Reporters sans frontières - China

[Mythsaje]

1. Y'know, China might not end up ruling the world after all...

They might "accidentally" precipitate another cultural revolution with all this crap before they get the chance.