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One World Controlled by One Director - Keso
From China’s most prominent technology commentator and blogger keso’s blog: Playin’ with IT, translated by Linjun Fan:
» Read moreThe year of 2007 ended dramatically.
On December 27, two Chinese government departments jointly announced a regulation to control video and audio content on the Internet, setting the tone for the “state ownership” [of these new media.] To propagate this new regulation, the state-owned broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) aired a news story on the same day, using a child and a parent’s words to argue for the legitimacy of the new regulation. The child described the Internet as “very yellow [pornographic], very violent.” Soon the phrase she used became a popular saying among Chinese Internet users, many of whom use it jokingly.
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Top Ten Lists: Differences Between Chinese and English Internet Users - Keso
From China’s leading technology writer keso’s Playin’ with IT blog, translated by CDT:
What are the top ten “What is” questions searched by Chinese Internet users - according to Baidu (the most popular Chinese search engine)?
- What is a mutual fund?
- What are warrants?
- What are stock-index futures?
- What are stocks?
- What is e-commerce?
- What is love?
- What is 3g? (Third generation wireless technology)
- What is corporate culture?
- What is “scientific view of development?”
- What is OEM? (Original Equipment Manuacture)
The top ten “What is” questions by English users around the world, according to Google:
- What is love?
- What is autism?
- What is rss?
- What is lupus?
- What is sap?
- What is bluetooth?
- What is emo?
- What is java?
- What is hpv (human papillomavirus)?
- What is gout?
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Bloggers In China Start Testing Limits Of ‘Mental Firewall’ - Geoffrey A. Fowler
From The Wall Street Journal:
The respected Chinese blogger Hong Bo, known as Keso, last week posted a question to an online discussion forum in China. “If one day Taiwan goes independent,” he wrote, “what harm will it do to us?”
That is a sensitive topic in a country that still treats Taiwan as a breakaway province. Shortly after Keso raised the point, the discussion was cut short. His online censor wasn’t the notorious “Great Firewall of China,” the filtering software put in place by the Chinese government to stifle online dissent. Rather, Keso was reprimanded by another writer in the general-interest forum. “No discussion of politics here!” his fellow netizen insisted. ”
In China, people are not in the habit of expressing their ideas very publicly,” says Keso. [Full Text]
[Image source: Isaac Mao and Hong Bo, from Duowei.com]
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Writing On The Wall - GFWed! - Keso
As part of the aftermath of Xiamen PX protests, US based photo sharing website Flickr has been filtered since June 7. Beijing-based blogger Keso writes an influential blog about Web 2.0 technology. He pointed out that this photo on Flickr is now blocked by the Great Firewall of China.
Here are translations of some of those Chinese characters on the wall:
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UPDATED: Talking About Blog Real-Name Registration - Keso and Bai Xiaoci
On the recent hot topic blog real name registration, the Beijing-based technology blogger Keso wrote on his Playin’ with IT - DonewsBlog (translated by CDT):
» Read moreMany people say, management (of the society) is a form of art. That’s nonsense. The most direct, straightforward management (like the blog real name registration), is not art, not even skills, at most it is a form of calculation and intimidation.
There are many emotional posts on University BBSs, and no one can find their authors. This gives leaders a headache. The solution is simple - real name registration and outlawing non-campus IP posts on university BBS. Short message services often contain illegal information and scams, and it is hard to find out who sent them. This gives leaders a headache as well. The solution is simple - real name registration, so every calling card corresponds to one person. All of sudden there are more then 10 million blogs, so many voices saying all kind of things. This gives leaders a headache again. The solution is simple - real name registration, every blog requires its author’s real identity.
To be really frank, the real name registration doesn’t let you forget that Big Brother’s radiating eyes are always on your back. You are bad people, you are a rioter, you are a potential criminal, but you dare not actually do anything. (The Big Brother) watches you like teachers monitor you during exams, the monitor does not even blink his eyes. Even if you want to cheat, you would not even dare to do it. This is called the power of intimidation.
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Mr. Huang Chengqing, the general secretary of the Internet Association said: the blog real name registration system suggested by the blog research group of the Internet Association is a limited system, only applies at the back end. In other words, a netizen who opens a blog is required to provide real name and identity, but on the front page of his/her blog, he/she can still use a penname. This really sounds kind and relaxed. What Mr. Huang is really saying is nobody knows you are a dog except me, so no worries. What a fart. The only person I am afraid of IS you.
China spends all its limited resources on those “management” systems, no wonder it hardly ever innovates technologies which would really promote social progress. [Chinese Text]
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Merry Christmas - Keso
Technology critic Keso (洪波) is arguably the most influential blogger in China’s information technology world. His Playin’ with IT blog is widely popular among Chinese geeks, hackers, IT business people, new media editors and journalists, professors and students. Here is a partial translation of his post today (some links added by CDT):
» Read moreNo one complains about too many gifts. Today I have been bombed by SMS messages, all about Christmas greetings. Hah. I do not have the custom to celebrate Christmas, however, I am very happy to see people find all kind of reasons to make themselves happy. So, let me just say once here to all people who do celebrate this holiday: Merry Christmas.
In the last couple of days, PostShow has started an online poll to nominate the annual Chinese character. Chinese netizens are rather pathetic, when it comes to this online selection activity. Many of them naturally thought of their miserable online experiences caused by the Great Firewall. So many of them selected “封(Block)” as the annual character. How sad!
There is an excellent blog hosting service provided by Google: Blogger. But Chinese netizens cannot use it, because it’s hosting server Blogspot has been “walled”. Xiao Lin told me a method (to get around it), which he got from someone else. You can use the FTP publishing function of Blogger, to publish your blog on a third party server……..
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I have tested this service for a while and think it is quite good. Here is my testing site’s address. Let me give this to everyone as a Christmas gift. Please note that as with all foreign servers, there is always a possibility of being “walled”.Merry Christmas!
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What’s hot in Chinese blogosphere and why - Xiao Qiang
According to Xinhua, the word “Baoxian ‰øùÂÖà” (Preserving the Progressiveness (of the CCP)”) is among top ten “most searched key words” on Chinese search engine Baidu, together with “Shenzhou VI Spacecraft” and “super voice girls.”
And here is a quote from Fang Xingdong, the CEO of bokee.com, China’s largest blog-hosting service: “among the million users of bokee.com, whose blog is the hottest? I did not think of, no one has probably thought of it. It is not Mu Zimei, not Furongjiejie, not Liumang Yan. Of course it is not my blog either. Recently the top two blogs attracting traffic are all bloggers providing studying/writing materials for the education of party members.”
What does this fact tell us? Domination of CCP ideology in the Internet era and among the internet generation? Not quite so. Chinese webmasters and bloggers set up sites where they can attract a lot of traffic and then use the site to sell commercials. Sites now routinely provide pre-prepared versions of papers, which Party members are required to submit at ideological education study sessions, in order to attract traffic to their site and thereby sell ads.
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