China issues rules on reporting Google moves
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"Please pay strict attention to the following content requirements during this period," the list instructed, according to a translation provided by China Digital Times, a project of the Berkeley China Internet Project. A sample of those requirements follows:
• "Only use Central Government main media (Web site) content; do not use content from other sources."
• "Do not produce relevant topic pages; do not set discussion sessions; do not conduct related investigative reporting."
• "Online programs with experts and scholars on this matter must apply for permission ahead of time. This type of self-initiated program production is strictly forbidden."
• "All Web sites please clean up text, images, and sound and videos which support Google, dedicate flowers to Google, ask Google to stay, cheer for Google and others have a different tune from government policy."
• "Chief managers in different regions please assign specific manpower to monitor Google-related information; if there is information about mass incidents, please report it in a timely manner."
For more on this story, read China issues media rules for stories on Google on CNET News.
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The line between decency and control
This is exactly why Google has nothing to loose by pulling out of China. Policies supposedly intended to prevent citizens from exposure to pornography etc. are simply used to manipulate public opinion. Under these conditions, Google will never be permitted to compete fairly with Baidu, and if they actually do...These same policies make it just as easy for them to just steal anything Google produces that's popular and either block it or use it themselves.
Socratesfoot26th Mar 2010 -
RE: China issues rules on reporting Google moves
CNN's Cafferty is right: China is still run by the same sort of thugs and goons that it always has been. On the other hand, what about the US--with its decaying social, economic and political life--would recommend our style of "democracy" to the Chinese?
FeralUrchin26th Mar 2010 -
You deal with the devil... you get burned.
simple truth.
Been_Done_Before26th Mar 2010 -
RE: China issues rules on reporting Google moves
Google is forced to do this by USA. China needs not worry about the oil drilling hoax,as to make china think we will be a source of supply for them over Iran.It's all a protectionist game,and Obama thinks the Chineese are stupid!Obama has forced google to get out of china as for the transparency that he doesn't want exposed. But with the open government and sunshine week,it has already been taken care of. As an NGI,(non-government individual),it is my civic duty to provide the truth and transparency of a corrupt government,and to provide security to my fellow americans,and to reveal the neglect of the people, and our ability to have adequate consumer spending,to even purchase foreign products.Iran want's to keep being China's oil supplier.And the USA is bluffing China to diss Iran in their talks to come. This message too will be forwarded to the chineese media,and I will not use google to do it.
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