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September 26, 2005
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All the news that's fit to print (with Chinese characteristics)
Xinhua has announced new regulations for online news as part of China's ongoing clampdown on the net. Inevitably Mainland bloggers will be considered part of this regulation. Xinhua's report begins: Online news sites that publish stories containing fabricated information, pornography, gambling or violence are facing severe punishments or even shutdown.Skinhua should be careful. And there's a state-owned irony alert in effect. Other reading Glutter
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TrackBack URL for this entry: http://blog.mu.nu/cgi/trackback.cgi/118390 Send a manual trackback ping to this post. Cyberdissident Shi Tao is not a Decapitating Murderer: Why Yahoo! Should have been raked over with Hot Coals.. Excerpt: Zhong Guo Middle Kingdom Someone asked me to comment on an argument that Yahoo! Should not have been raked over hot coals due to the fact, abetting in placing journalist Shi Tao in jail for a decade in a Chinese Weblog: Glutter(.org) Tracked: September 27, 2005 01:38 AM News: The New Rules Against Internet "Subversion" in China Excerpt: Zhong Guo, Middle KingdomThese new rules are a worry; signally an ever more vigilant web police. It might have something to do with the recent Yahoo! story and also the blogger's handbook. As you can see on Glutter, the news Weblog: Glutter(.org) Tracked: September 27, 2005 06:48 AM
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Thanks Simon. Yes, this is Richard's forte rather than my own but what the Chinese govt seem to be doing is just like it says on the tin: they want to "standardise" the flow of news and information and make the news reflect what the big guns of the Chinese official state madia are saying. They're trying cut down on the number of voices within China's media and ensure that the news channles are speaking with one (party-approved) voice. The number of media channels has exploded in China this last decade or so and so has the number of non-official voices in that media. Also, the newspapers here, for example, are predominantly no longer state-owned, they are on their own and always looking to increase sales. These rules try to reign them in so that, at least the op-eds reflect the party line. posted by: Martyn on 09.26.05 at 03:41 PM [permalink]Linklets are late today. I expect that's because they'll be even better than normal!? posted by: Martyn on 09.26.05 at 03:47 PM [permalink]You'll have to judge the quality, but it's more that it's been a busy day at work and Monday is always a tough day for linklets as I've got a whole weekend to cover. posted by: Simon on 09.26.05 at 04:02 PM [permalink] |
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