Posted on 06/27/2022 2:27:44 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Carefully vetting every single piece of user-generated content (UGC) before it’s allowed to be posted to a website is a daunting task.
But China is clearly up for the challenge.
The country’s so-called Cyberspace Administration has released a new policy that requires all comments on websites to be approved before they’re published.
The new rules were outlined in a document published last week entitled: ‘Provisions on the Administration of Internet Thread Commenting Services’.
It will mean any company or individual that runs a website where people can post comments will need to hire ‘a review and editing team suitable for the scale of services’.
These newly-installed comment moderators will have to vet every single one prior to publication and flag any potentially illegal information to the Administration.
And it goes even further. Any site that does allow readers to post comments must collect their real names and verify their identity before allowing them to submit comments.
The tighter controls seem to have come following online criticism of the Chinese government’s recent mandatory lockdowns as it tried to battle a fresh onslaught of Covid-19.
Internet censorship in China is already widespread and rigorously enforced, which can make it a bit tricky for trvellers who are used to relying on certain sites and apps.
The vast majority of sites that are blocked are western, so Chinese locals are not affected as much by the intense levels of censorship.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
“””The country’s so-called Cyberspace Administration has released a new policy that requires all comments on websites to be approved before they’re published.”””
FReepers could keep at least 100 people employed to approve our comments before publication.
Something tells me that nobody behind the Bamboo Curtain can access FreeRepublic.
Not Grinder??
The Demoncrats are droooooling! 🤤
Social media’s dream. Coming soon to you. And they’ve already tested the algorithms on today’s most used (and most corrupt) sites.
Pretty soon we’ll have to go to our own samisdat sites. No, wait......
The next step will be back to the old mimiographed pages kept behind other papers and distributed in dark corners. (At the same time the left allows public drug distribution.)
So, pretty much like here in the USA???
(see the thread two posts above this one)
Coming soon to a country near you...
Fluck Xiden!
So it’s like Facebook.
I may be naive; but, I am rather surprised at a lot of the sites on this list. I mean so many of them already kiss the CCP’s behinds.
This is a jobs program. Of course they’ll need watchers to watch the watchers who are watching the posters and so on and on it goes.
It's not bad.
It's awful.
Governmental overreach into the job of a parent isn't something to be cheered.
Would the government rather the kiddies watch porn? Snuff films? Why go after gaming?
Maybe the kids in China are spending so much time doing online gaming because it's one of the few places where they are not being indoctrinated. In an online game, they can be an individual. They can win a game by themselves, without being forced into a collectivist culture-building hootenanny.
Small wonder their government is clamping down. The Communist government doesn't want children with high IQs....they may start thinking for themselves.
That’s exactly the same list that’s banned from my electronic devices. Imagine that.
Dems want that here too.
Read Hillary‘s secret war by Richard Poe. This was back in the White House days with Bill Clinton. She was very fast to see that the Internet needed to be silenced. FR gets mentioned in the book. This is precisely what she wanted for the Internet, government setting of user generated comments and stories.
Parents were complaining of the addiction of gaming.
Electronics addiction is as pernicious as drug addiction and it is as brain damaging.
China did not end gaming which is what it would have done if what you described was their goal. They li.ited it.
That’s a great make-work project. Plus it increases social harmony.
Nancy Pelosi: "I love it! Let's write our law!"
Liz Cheney: "I'll help you, Nanc! This way we can REALLY get Trump."
Adam Schiff: GOLLUM.
Obama: "Why didn't *I* think of that!"
Biden: "This, this banana, you know, the thing, that those hairs stand up. Kids love it!"
Adam Schiff: GOLLUM. GOLLUM.
John Cornyn: "Nancy, we'll find a compromise here, somehow. Instead of EVERY comment being state-approved, we can make it ALL comments being state-approved."
Nancy Pelosi: "I knew I could count on you, John!"
Adamn Schiff: GOLLUM.
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