Chinese Crack Down On Student Web Sites
The "Most Favored Nation" of China is cracking down on Student Web Sites (washingtonpost.com).
Universities across China are tightening controls on student-run Internet discussion forums as part of a Communist Party campaign to strengthen what it calls "ideological education" on campuses. The crackdown has caused widespread resentment among students and prompted at least two demonstrations in recent days.
The Web sites, which run on school computer networks, host some of China's largest and liveliest online bulletin boards. They serve as virtual meeting places where millions of educated Chinese across the country gather for discussions about everything from pop culture to politics.
But in recent weeks, universities have started blocking off-campus users from participating, including alumni and students and faculty from other universities, according to students and college officials. They have also begun requiring students to register with their real names when going online, eliminating the anonymity that allowed participants to speak without fear of punishment by the authorities.
In the meantime the FEC entertains campain reform and ways to restrict politicing on the Internet.
Bradley Smith says that the freewheeling days of political blogging and online punditry are over.
In just a few months, he warns, bloggers and news organizations could risk the wrath of the federal government if they improperly link to a campaign's Web site. Even forwarding a political candidate's press release to a mailing list, depending on the details, could be punished by fines.
Smith should know. He's one of the six commissioners at the Federal Election Commission, which is beginning the perilous process of extending a controversial 2002 campaign finance law to the Internet.
Perhaps when our leaders speak of China becoming like us, They really mean that we are the ones to be making the changes.
posted by Liberty @ 6:33 AM
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This type of oppression from the government and school administrators is intended to quiet a voice, but actually does the opposite. These students who once posted on a university forum for their peers now have an international voice as their story is picked up by the media.
I run a student forum for students at the University of Maryland University College (UMUC) and we have not had any pressure from school administrators to moderate the board. Of course, we just started. Others at the University of Phoenix and Capella have had pressure from their school administration to shut down their sites. The difference here is that the pressure is coming from the school instead of the government.
Unfortunately for these students, if the site and network is owned by the university then the university could easily moderate their views. Is it possible in China to start your own site as we have done with www.UMUCreview.com? If they have access to a network off-campus, or even on campus, it seems like this would not be hard to do with so many free tools and hosts available.
These University BBS in China have in their operations for as long as ten years. You can image the size of a single BBS (at peak time, there are more than 7,000 users online and there are more than 300,000 registered users).
The political discussions are the only very small part of the whole BBS. After 10 years of development, there are countless valuable information on non-political related issues: IT technologies, Visa information, Math problems, job interviews... With the crack down of the web sites, these information are wipped off (like Lily BBS at Nanjing Univ), or blocked.
As far as I know, it is not easy for Chinese students to access a network off-campus, unless they install ADSL in their dorms. Even if they could, there is no company would risk to against the goverment's order to host the web sites. Students are struggling to move these BBS to the U.S., however, since most users can not easily access the Internet out side of China, it is still a problem.
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