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Comment on The Tweet of the Day: 1984, Brave New World, and China by ojadyge

ojadyge — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 17:53:25 +0000

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Comment on Access to Sites Outside China (Mainland) Slow by Hitman

Hitman — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:03:40 +0000

I think is the second reason..heightened censorship..called China Netcom, they said they are upgrading the international lease line… but US site like microsoft, motorola.com access are fast.. but news site like yahoo, CNN are all blocked..

Comment on China Launches Investigation Into Maps by Planet Street Map » links for 2009-08-06

Planet Street Map » links for 2009-08-06 — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:07:48 +0000

[...] techblog86 » Blog Archive » China Launches Investigation Into Maps China to punish "illegal" online maps of China showing military places, independent Taiwan, etc. Google beware (again) [...]

Comment on Chinese Net Comment Policy on Steroids — Your ID, Please by tom

tom — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:55:35 +0000

it will never work and chinese authorities rarely implement what they set up. With hundreds of millions of netizens, it is simply impossible to scrutinize the ids and names one by one.
During SARS and H1N1, every passenger crossing borders is required to fill in form declaring them free of symptoms and viruses, nobody does it seriously, false names and false ids are used. so basically this rule is crippled by the massive amount of people, people’s unwillingness of disclose true identity and most importantly nobody enforces it.
and the only result is waste and ineffeciency.

Comment on Is Xiaonei Going To Get Harmonized? by techblog86 » Blog Archive » Is Xiaonei As We Know It Coming To An End?

techblog86 » Blog Archive » Is Xiaonei As We Know It Coming To An End? — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:26:21 +0000

[...] for Xiaonei — once “detested” and ridiculed as the Chinese carbon copy of Facebook. As we’ve reported a bit earlier on techblog86, Xiaonei as we know it right now might get harmonized — or see a lot of changes [...]

Comment on Chinese Net Comment Policy on Steroids — Your ID, Please by DavidFeng

DavidFeng — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:27:42 +0000

@JeffreyJDavis: They could still game the system (with, say, fake ID numbers and bogus addresses). (OK, then the censors would up the security with — I dunno. Scarier censorship upgrades? Biometric comments? Anything’s possible — especially in the run-up to the Big Sixty…)

Comment on Chinese Net Comment Policy on Steroids — Your ID, Please by DavidFeng

DavidFeng — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:25:50 +0000

@gregorylent: Don’t have a link, but this is what popped up on Twitter in Chinese:

RT @freemoren: 中宣部等部门下达指令，要求各门户网站务必在8月15日将新闻评论功能改为“实名制”，用户使用时将填写身份证、居住地址等必填选项（来源1984BBS）

Comment on Chinese Net Comment Policy on Steroids — Your ID, Please by Jeffrey J Davis

Jeffrey J Davis — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:04:33 +0000

David-

I certainly hope that it is not REALLY coming to this?!?!?

I don’t understand the real benefit, unless each blog installs some technology to verify ID numbers and cross-ref to names etc. I would imagine anyone that wanted to comment anything semi-controversial would use a faux ID number?

Am I missing something?

China continues to amaze me.

let freedom ring.

best,

@JeffreyJDavis
ID#6969696969
http://www.jeffreyjdavis.com

Comment on Chinese Net Comment Policy on Steroids — Your ID, Please by gregorylent

gregorylent — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:02:02 +0000

a link in chinese? i want to show a friend .. thanks

Comment on Welcome to a redefined techblog86 by Fyre Vortex

Fyre Vortex — Thu, 21 May 2009 10:32:06 +0000

Heh, David, nice redesign. I can’t remember how this looked like before, but this new design is sweet.