Beijing is banning all foreign media from publishing online in China
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#2This is pure insanity: "Quartz contacted the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology from Hong Kong asking for further clarification on how the rules would work, but the ministry said it could only reply to faxed questions that came from a reporter with a mainland press card."
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#3"Pravin Lal: As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."
from Alpha Centauri (the video game)
Funny how this was about the Americans and not the more obvious choice.
Re: Beijing is banning all foreign media from publishing online in China
#4This seems like a huge deal. How does this not have 100's of upvotes on HN? Am I missing something?
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#5"acquisition of an online publishing license"!?
"How do you license media in an age when everyone could become a writer and publisher?" As far as I can imagine - you don't, that's the thing! Maybe they won't do you anything for now, but if they don't like what you're publishing they will have a ready-available "legal" reason for detaining you for publishing without a publishing license (which of course could be claimed to be totally unrelated to your published content)!
Re: Beijing is banning all foreign media from publishing online in China
#6This is pure insanity: "Quartz contacted the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology from Hong Kong asking for further clarification on how the rules would work, but the ministry said it could only reply to faxed questions that came from a reporter with a mainland press card."
Classic bureaucracy evasive manuever.
I see it here in the US as well. "We only accept queries by email and will reply within three to five days" or "It will cost $1 per page to print" etc.
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#7Well, ever since the change of government China has been closing back on itself again and censorship has been stronger and stronger. It's not surprising and tells me I made the right choice to leave the country in 2013...
Re: Beijing is banning all foreign media from publishing online in China
#8This seems like a huge deal. How does this not have 100's of upvotes on HN? Am I missing something?
At the time of this comment, the article was posted less than an hour ago.
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#9They have to handle the devaluation of the Renminbi and a slumping economy somehow /s
Re: Beijing is banning all foreign media from publishing online in China
#10This seems like a huge deal. How does this not have 100's of upvotes on HN? Am I missing something?
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