Sunny Lee reports in the Asia Times: Some 20 years later, the Chinese government, emboldened by its economic prowess and global political importance, is now willing to experiment with the program again. Spearheading this crusade...
The China Media Project has translated an editorial from the China Youth Daily, weighing in on the debate over real-name registration for web users: Recently the Internet Society of China has proposed trying out a limited real-name registration system for the Web, so that when a user registers their account with a blog or bulletin […]
From The LA Times: In a random sampling of Internet comments shortly after the regulations were released Sunday, a few Chinese supported the government’s stance as a way to stem “foreign rumors.” But the vast majority slammed the new rules with sarcasm and wit, accusing the government of turning back the clock, undercutting the media’s […]
From a New York Times editorial (link): As China moves ahead steadily in the global marketplace, its ultimate success will depend not just on its buying power. Among other things, China must have a free press and a judicial system based on the rule of law rather than political power. One highly public test of […]
From METANOIAC! a weblog from China: I just got back from a symposium on press freedom in China that was part of Columbia University’s World Leaders Forum. Columbia President Lee Bollinger was the moderator, and lots of media elite from both China and the US were on the panel. Among them were Dorinda Elliott, who […]
From the Beijing Review: “In China, as in every other country, blogging has taken off big time, so much so that a blogger with the hostname of Snake (Meng Xiaoshe) became the jury prizewinner in the Deutsche Welle International Weblog Awards 2004, the first international blog competition. His The Dog Newspaper (http://www. 18mo.com) was honored […]
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