11/24/2005
Wang Jianshuo, reportedly the first English blogger in China, is pissed off with BBC that interviewed him on the the blogsphere in China. He blamed BBC for misusing his comment in the aired programme.
"I am not comfortable that my words were taken out of the context to support another view that I don’t agree", Wang says. In the interview,when asked about the censorship of blogging in China, Wang said“I don’t want to comment on this”.
I don't see BBC did anything wrong.
First of all, it is a matter of fact that blogs, alike other Internet publishing in China, are under state censorship this or that way.
I created my first blog in blogspot in early 2003, but it was not accessible from China until the recent three months.
After blogpsot's blockage, I created another one in blog-city, which was blocked by the Great Firewall in middle of 2005.
Chinese are not unfamilar with censorship in any form. Days of speech freedom ended when Qin Shihuan (China's first emperor) took the power after he defeated other states and created a united China 2000 years ago.
People must avoid using some particular words that could insult the emperor, for instance, any character of the emperor's name must not be written by anybody anywhere. Intellectuals who wrote something controversial (something the government is not happy with)were jailed since Qinshihuan's time till nowadays.
In the Internet era, web publishing must also obey the rule so much rooted in Chinese society as an instinct for Chinese writers.
Filter software is embeded in major portal sites like Sina and Sohu so that those "sensitive words" will miss in the text automatically. Yahoo handed in an indicted journalist's email to the government as proof for his crime.
How does censorship work on the web publishing in China? Stevenson-Yang, a Beijing-based writer on information technology, has a good point.
"I am not comfortable that my words were taken out of the context to support another view that I don’t agree", Wang says. In the interview,when asked about the censorship of blogging in China, Wang said“I don’t want to comment on this”.
I don't see BBC did anything wrong.
First of all, it is a matter of fact that blogs, alike other Internet publishing in China, are under state censorship this or that way.
I created my first blog in blogspot in early 2003, but it was not accessible from China until the recent three months.
After blogpsot's blockage, I created another one in blog-city, which was blocked by the Great Firewall in middle of 2005.
Chinese are not unfamilar with censorship in any form. Days of speech freedom ended when Qin Shihuan (China's first emperor) took the power after he defeated other states and created a united China 2000 years ago.
People must avoid using some particular words that could insult the emperor, for instance, any character of the emperor's name must not be written by anybody anywhere. Intellectuals who wrote something controversial (something the government is not happy with)were jailed since Qinshihuan's time till nowadays.
In the Internet era, web publishing must also obey the rule so much rooted in Chinese society as an instinct for Chinese writers.
Filter software is embeded in major portal sites like Sina and Sohu so that those "sensitive words" will miss in the text automatically. Yahoo handed in an indicted journalist's email to the government as proof for his crime.
How does censorship work on the web publishing in China? Stevenson-Yang, a Beijing-based writer on information technology, has a good point.
# posted by Intelligent Being @ 22:08 
