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Aug
11
The Secret Of Internet Censorship In China
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As we know, whether blog or forum is censored in China, people can not say anything in China. What can be said, and what can not be said is a question for all of us, today, I will introduce some of the legal basis in China: “Computer Information Network and Internet Security, Protection and Management Regulations”
The management regulations is approved by the State Council of China on December 11 1997 and promulgated by the Ministry of Public Security of China on December 30, 1997. This is a legal basis. In that regulations, a detailed definition of “harmful information” the specific meaning, publishing “harmful information” is forbidden. Then what is the “harmful information”?
According to the Section Five of the Act provides that no individual may use the Internet to create, replicate, retrieve, or spread the following kinds of information:
(1) Inciting to resist or breaking the Constitution or laws or the implementation of administrative regulations;
(2) Inciting to overthrow the government or the socialist system;
(3) Inciting division of the country, harming national unification;
(4) Inciting hatred or discrimination among nationalities or harming the unity of the nationalities;
(5) Making falsehoods or distorting the truth, spreading rumors, destroying the order of society;
(6) Promoting feudal superstitions, sexually suggestive material, gambling, violence, murder,
(7) Terrorism or inciting others to criminal activity; openly insulting other people or distorting the truth to slander people;
(8) Injuring the reputation of state organs;
(9) Other activities against the Constitution, laws or administrative regulations.
Evidently, these nine categories of information is harmful information. I think, in one word, any threat to social stability statements are “harmful information”. Anyone want to publishing “harmful information” is illegal. This is the so-called “Internet censorship in China”, If you knew about this, you will be able to understand those weird things in China’s cyberspace.
Sources:William Long: The internet censership’s law basis (Chinese)
So good!
be careful to avoid being censored by GFW……..
Could u introduce us the Internet censorship in other countries ? Let’s cheak out how many distinguish between them and that old nation .
憋久了吧，才开英文博就迫不及待的想说这些话了。说的不错!
hehe.
a true China……
no offence, but i think some expressions here might cause misunderstanding.
the first line, 无论博客或论坛均被审查, is probably better in this way:
both blog and forum are…
“what can be said, and what cannot be SAID…” but i don’t really think that sounds native.
“According to the Section Five of the Act, no individual may use…” or “The Section Five of the Act provides that no individual…”
“Anyone want to publishing ‘harmful information’ is illegal.”, better be: “Any tempt to publish/ of publishing … is illegal” The key is, nobody could be illegal but their behavior.
Is “butwho” want to be a translator for “Moonlight blog”?
Look look !
China–so good,so strong,so harmonic!!
but we do need a harmonic country???
我的一点意见：
people can not say something in China
something应为anything,something放在一个否定句，你不觉得很别扭吗？
According to the Section Five of the Act provides that no individual may use the Internet to create, replicate, retrieve, or transmit the following kinds of information:
transmit是发射信号，电子的意思，原文是不是传播，用spread
spread news
(8) Injuring the reputation of state organs;
injure都是身体心灵的伤害，用damaging可能好一些。
其余还有很多小错，下一次发之前最好检查一遍。如果这篇发之前检查过，以后实在该找个人把把关。
建议你读读《The Economist》（经济学人）这本Weekly杂志，里面的行文风格也许会对你有所启发。http://ecocn.org/forum/index.php 这个论坛的海外刊物 栏目中有2002-当前所有出版的该杂志的pdf版。
嘿嘿，俺估计凭老外的那些心眼，是很难正确理解您说的内容的……
any threat to social stability statements are “harmful information”
这句话必须让深谙中国国情的才能理解……
As we know, whether blog or forum is censored in China, people can not say something in China.正如我们所知,无论是博客还是论坛删是,在中国,人们不能说一下中国.
Hmm…fairly insightful thoughts. William found a loophole in the law and quoted it. But It does not work at all. the law is just a paper inked with some formulaic words. We have to admit China is really a special land where any odd things can occur. In China, the governing party always try to marshal any resources it can to keep its tight grip on what can be exposed safely to China Internet users. The politikal power has permeated into cyberspace. Cyberpolices can remove anything which is said to be threat to a harmonious society according to their own rules. Pathetically, the constitution and laws are nothing but puppets for the decision-makers to police the country. Looks like we are experiencing the scenario in 1984 the novel.
We admit information filtering is in some ways good for people, but we have the sacred rights to know what the truth is. Turns out, in fact,we’ve deprived of our rights to know about the truth. It seems like we are living in a cocoon where the government eliminates all harmful information and builds an information vacuum. That’s probably the formidable power of the politikal juggernaut. Should we own the government a true debt or we hate it?
I know much little about politiks, but there are nothing politikal out there in China. Anything could be politikized. In a country where the politikal power overrides anything, it’s no wonder all kinds of antics are on the stage.
PS: It should have been recommended highly GFW is picked up as Top 1 in New7Wonder.
I think that the wall will trace the link to your site soon. You know, English words are easier for analysis by the gov’s search engine.
I think this blog will be blocked soon
Kill the CCP!
Your English is god-damn ameteur.
看晕了~~~
你英语8级吧~~
good,waiting for next post
Okay, I finally realize that you are playing with wp , hahah ,cong~~
It seems that the law itself is not the most important.Instead,the government judge the behavior by their own standard.
BSPs need rules, but individual bloggers are under GFW : (
It seems as if an image of your Chinese blog, at least the 1st article.
And I think what u told both in Ch or En were surely right and with no fare of being blocked– actually they’re indentical to the law and thoughts. Thus, I felt bit funny of what they said above
U think a lot and write well, and I wish u insist on, btw, maybe the En version can spread something different from the Ch one.
Wish u good luck~
congratulations,i am a chinese blogger too,i see your chinese blog almost every day.
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You got one wrong:
What can be said, and what can not be say is a question for all of us
what can be said, and what can not be said is a question for all of us
说实在的，这些内容其实没什么价值。你看看中文的原文，我认为每一条都没什么问题，比如说哪家国家允许公民违反宪法吗？
问题就出在执行上，法律可以任意解释。所以，请不要攻击法律条文本身。
再说了，中国的很多陋习不是某个政党的问题，是民族素质的问题，每个人都需要检讨和提高。。。。
我也觉得不是政党的问题。
关键是管事的人的素质。
另外，中国发展不平衡，思想水平差距大，当前稳定是第一重要的。苦了你，但是如果你能努力去改变现状而不是一味埋怨现状，我相信会更好些。
The Chinese Communist regime is so evil that it is by no means qualified to host the 2008 Olympic Games. It is indeed an Olympic Shame for the evil regime to host the event which is supposed to honor humanity and peace.
If u are QQ user you are part of world biggest digital wiretapping network: 230 million QQ users being monitored on dialy basis.
QQ software hide many key words that the Chinese government want to keep an interst in. Evertime someone uses keywords (like democarcy movement or falun Gong) in their QQ IM, then that information is passed by QQ server to government. When u think about it is very clever. Chinese government can keep watch over hundreds of million of people having QQ IM and it cost Beijing nothing. In fact QQ make big fat profit on this.
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This just goes to show that the West is right when it criticises the Chinese government - as opposed to the Chinese people.
China is a beautiful country with beautiful people but two major problems, a very evil government that is afraid of the truth and very bad pollution. Oh, and gross violations of human rights and little real freedom of religion.
So in the light of this how can the people of China say that we in the west are wrong about these matters when the N.P.C. so strongly censors the facts?
He had a unsatisfying dono of briskly manifest marks and this it would porn actress names him, Britney thought to herself as a soppy pictures of celebrity women crossed her face. In a complete violin he spoke to her in French, encapsulating resorts she couldn’t understand.
觉得不是政党的问题。
关键是管事的人的素质。
另外，中国发展不平衡，思想水平差距大，当前稳定是第一重要的。苦了你，但是如果你能努力去改变现状而不是一味埋怨现状，我相信会更好些。
those attacking china and chinese government.
THOSE ATTACHING CHINA AND CHINESE GOVERNMENT, STOP TO BEING A NUISANCE! IF CHINESE GOVERNMENTDO NOT DO IT, YOU MAY CLAIM THAT CHINESE USE HACK TO ATTACK YOUR WEB SITE. NOW GOVERNMENT AT LEAST KNOW WHO ARE REALLY DOING THESE.
AS FOR OLYMPICS, IF YOU ARE GREAT ENOUGH, PLEASE LET THE WORLD CANCEL THIS GAME. DO CHINESE PEOPLEREALLY CARE, IF YOU CHOOSE TO TURN CHINA AS ENEMY? FROM 1949, CHINESE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN TREATED AS ENEMY, WE STILL LIVE WELL AND WILL DEVELOP MORE!
CCP IS NOT PERFECT, BUT AT LEAST MUCH BETER THEN FOREIGN IN OPIUM WAR AND 1900 WAR; ALSO BETTER THAN KMT WHICH LOST ITS CAPITAL TO JAPANESE KILLING 3MILLION PEOPLE!
DEFEND CHINESE GOVERNMENT, DEFEND CCP, THOUGH I AM NOT A MEMBER OF CCP. AN ORDINARY CHINESE.
WESTERNERS, REMEBER YOU ARE NOT GOD! ON YOUR HANDS, THERE ARE STILL BLOOD BLEEDING! BLOOD OF SO MANY PEOPLE: JEWISH, POLISH IN WORLD WAR II AND CHINESE IN OPIUM WAR AND 190 WAR.
westerners, remeber that you are NOT god! there are still blood bleeding on your hand! do NOT incite ethic hared in China between tibetan and han people! otherwise, what is diferent you are dong now with what Nazis doing to Jewish and Polish, inciting hared? What IS EVIL!