MicroBlogging

For more news and videos visit ☛ english.ntdtv.com Follow us on Twitter ☛ http Add us on Facebook ☛ on.fb.me Microblogging—one of the very few outlets Chinese citizens have been using to freely speak their minds—is probably not so ’safe’ anymore. The Chinese regime put into effect new policies that will allow them to monitor bloggers more. On Friday, the Chinese regime implemented new policies that will require microbloggers to register with their real names. They can still have screen names, but before posting a comment, they must give administrators their personal information. According to state-run CCTV, the new rules will help prevent the spreading of “Information about state secrets, information damaging national security and interests, and instigating ethnic resentment, discrimination or illegal rallies that disrupt law and order.” They’re referring to rallies such as the one in April, when about 30 bloggers demonstrated outside a court in Fuzhou City. They were protesting the arrest of three bloggers facing slander charges for helping an illiterate woman to pressure authorities to reinvestigate her daughter’s death. One of those rallying is a popular Internet activist, Wang Lihong. He’s spending the next nine months in prison on the vague charge of “creating a disturbance.” China has more Internet users than the rest of the world—485 million. Controlling what those millions are saying online has been a major challenge for the Chinese regime. The new policies are …

Follow us on TWITTER: twitter.com Like us on FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com In news-censored mainland China, the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) controls information. Many can only guess the state of disasters. Microblogging platforms are quickly becoming a channel for rare, real facts. On August 3, the CCP’s mouthpiece media, CCTV questioned whether microblogging misinforms people about the crash, and accused microblogging of sending out false messages. Netizens believe it to be a sign that the CCP is trying to attack microblogging. “Godfather, godmother and daughter; Red mansion, Red Songs and the Red Cross; “Speedy train, moving people and spirits; Iron face, iron heart and Ministry of Railways.” The scroll reads “No Truth.” These are the recent rapidly spreading microblogging couplets. They mock officials’ mismanagement of the train crash and the corruption in Red Cross. Netizens express their anger in doggerels, so as to avoid immediate deletion from online forums. In just a few years, microblogging has become a new kind of network media, and a useful tool for public information. How fast is microblogging? Four minutes after the train crash, A Netizen Yuan Xiaoyuan who was on the train blogged: “D301 train crashed in Wenzhou.” A sudden emergency stop and then two big crashes! All the power is off! I am in the last carriage.” This message was two hours quicker than China’s mainland “news agency.” Li Tianxiao, Columbia University Ph.D. in political science: “This time the …