As if you needed another reason to hate China’s government, it appears their insatiable appetite for fucking the 1+ billion users over needs something new, something fresh. Besides completely destroying (read: censoring) the greatest invention of all time — the internet — the Chinese gov’t has now set their sites on texting.
If you reside in China and are a frequent user of dirty, vulgar, or otherwise, common daily rituals in text based communication, watch out. The gov’t is watching you. Offensive and “unhealthy” messages will be erased and those who sent such messages will have their cellular service cut off by the gov’t.
Anyone on the inside care to comment (if you can even read this)?
When will they learn….
MobileWhack
[Image Source]
- December 16, 2009 3:20 pm
Once again the argument and ideology of “saving the kiddies” from harmful pornographic material and all kinds of icky human parts is ruining a grand part of the internet — individually owned websites/domain names. Before we go any further, it’s worth noting that this crackdown is a China only crackdown. Whew!
A statement made by The China Internet Network Information Centre, starting this week only businesses, businessmen, and organizations will be able to register and own personal domain names. Even then, several hoops will have to be navigated and jumped through. New registrants will need to have written applications, copies of various licenses, and/or other certificates — for a goddamn domain name.
Those Chinese whom already own and run their own websites and own said domains may not be not be out of the woods. According to various site owners located abroad in Jiangsu, Shanghai, Henan, Zhejiang and Jiangxi no “grandfather rule” is being applied. That simply means that if current site owners with private domains could find their site dead, gone, and digital buried. A sad realization for the countless numbers of private site owners who have no doubt invested copious amounts of blood, sweat, and tears in their websites.
As mentioned above, the China Internet Network Information Centre is using the excuse reasoning that too much porn has popped up on private sites. Logical solution: erase them from existence. Great idea.
If you ever needed a reason not to move to/start a Chinese native website, this would illustrate a perfectly logical reason not to do so. As hard as I may try to keep personal politics out of this, I can’t help but feel sadness for the countess Chinese site owners — especially the nerdy ones — who have spent so much time on their websites, some spending many years, to now have it all hanging by a thread. Not to mention I can’t even begin fathom how any single one of the idiots who hold a seat in the Chinese government can even begin to think this is a reasonable or perfectly logical solution.
I’m sure there’s plenty of opinions out there. Let’s hear ‘em.
The Next Web
[Image Source]
- November 25, 2009 8:40 am
Anyone with even the smallest smidgen of knowledge into the tech realm knows how corrupt AT&T is. They lie, falsely advertise, and contort the truth for their own benefit. Such accusations and characteristics aren’t much different from most American businesses but the lengths at which AT&T goes as well as their blatant and obvious hypocrisy is downright shameful and disgusting. Without further procrastination, I bring you AT&T: The consumer hating, money driven, lets kill everything that even threatens our monopoly, communists. The fact of the matter is, that just as communist countries sensor everything and hold absolute control, so too does AT&T by lobbying against net neutrality.
The latest throw down is thanks to different viewpoints between AT&T’s Chief Lobbyist (his judgement and character are already clear…) Jim Cicconi and White House Chief Operating Officer Andrew McLaughlin. You see, White House COO Andrew McLaughlin made a completely honest and accurate statement regarding similarities between AT&T’s policies and communism without laying so much as a single shred of sugar coating on his wording:
If you are a sexter (love sending nudies of your naughty bits) and reside in China, you might want to start sleeping in the bathroom closet, stop showering, and start eating soup in preparation for your soon to be new living quarters: jail. The Chinese government who has for some time now restricted every aspect of their peoples’ lives is not leaving any area of life untouched as they are now going to punish individuals who send naughty texts with jail time. What’s even worse is there isn’t any consistency between provinces. For example, in the Chinese province of Henan, sending a naughty text can get you a 5-day jail stint and 3 naughty texts ups the dream vacation to 10 days in utter hell. Moving on to Liaoning, violators who send naughty texts can be charged with sexual harassment. Finally, in Hebei, communist party members who get caught sending the dirty can be beaten, raped, assaulted, killed “punished” for their actions. While I’m all for keeping little johnny and julia safe, the approach the government is taking in the name of “morality” is beyond excessive and stupid. Who gives the government the right to declare what is/isn’t moral for others? Anyone else get riled up about this crap?
Source: MobileCrunch, Image Source
