MySpace China encourages users to spy on each other

MySpace China encourages users to spy on each other

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MySpace, the world's largest social networking website, has finally come to China, the world's most populous nation. After months of delays, China's 1.3 billion citizens are now able to create their own pages on the Chinese-language version of MySpace. But unlike MySpace in other countries, sensitive topics like religion and politics are nowhere to be found on the Chinese site, and users are asked to report 'subversive' activity.

Users are told to click a button if they spot any 'misconduct' by other users. This 'misconduct' includes actions such as 'endangering national security, leaking state secrets, subverting the government, undermining national unity, spreading rumors or disturbing the social order' – according to the site's terms and conditions (Chinese page).

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MySpace is owned by News Corporation, which owns Fox, which owns Fox News.

I'm not sure what to think of this. If it's not apparent that the Chinese government is evil, then I'm not sure what will convince people. If it's not apparent that we should not be buying stuff from, I'm not sure what else to show you. I have things that say "Made in China," but a lot of it I just happened upon, or were given to me. I make a conscientious effort to avoid anything that says "Made in China" because I know about the despicable conditions many of their workers work on. Of course, one could make an argument that by not buying I'm depriving them of earnings. My only response is that buying into the system perpetuates it.

We thought that when China decided to open its economy that it would be on its way to democracy, freedom, and human rights. How wrong we've been. More and more it's turning into a fascist state.

I admit that I have a MySpace account, but I'm not sure I want to use it any more. The problem is that I have friends with whom MySpace is my only contact, and I would hate to lose contact with them.

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Of course they do. That is what China does, they are communist. You invoke a feeling of patriotism to spur the masses into keeping the status quo.

The Russians did the same thing, sans MySpace.

Who cares what China does to the population?

What I care about is the problems that they will cause later on. That is what is going to affect the west!

And oh the irony...the US and EU are the largest trading partners of China and we just keep building up a larger threat to be dealt with in the future.

Originally posted by bigfatfurrytexan
Of course they do. That is what China does, they are communist. You invoke a feeling of patriotism to spur the masses into keeping the status quo.

The Russians did the same thing, sans MySpace.

PRChina is NOT a Communist state, it is an amalgam based off of
Lenninist-Stallinism and Maoism, more recently with a capitalist streak.

A Communist state, that is a state based on all the tenants of Marxism
has never existed.

Originally posted by RetinoidReceptor
Who cares what China does to the population?

Anyone who feels compassion.

What I care about is the problems that they will cause later on. That is what is going to affect the west!

And oh the irony...the US and EU are the largest trading partners of China and we just keep building up a larger threat to be dealt with in the future.

It is better to nip the problem in the bud before it can get to bad.

Personally I try to not buy anything made in China, and I never support
anything that I know supports China, unless it supports the furtherment
of freedom and democracy there.

Originally posted by iori_komei
Anyone who feels compassion.

I am beyond caring as I don't believe the government there is so big and bad as people say considering most people in China likes the government and they have done a great job at improving the economy.

Like I said, I care about how the Chinese will become a later threat. Which they will.

Originally posted by RetinoidReceptor
I am beyond caring as I don't believe the government there is so big and bad as people say considering most people in China likes the government and they have done a great job at improving the economy.

Like I said, I care about how the Chinese will become a later threat. Which they will.

They like the government because they have done some positive things,
but they're is of course a level of social conditioning to like the
government.

The PRChinese government is not democratically elected, it has a massive
military and controls the media, I'd say that makes them big and bad.

And as I said, it is better to stop a problem while it is still in its infancy,
rather than having to deal with the full mature form, much like how one
deals with pest insects.

Whatever you want to call it. I think my reference is understood by most laypeople, right? I mean, most of us still think of the US as less of a Constitutional Republic and more of a Democracy, right?

Originally posted by bigfatfurrytexan
Whatever you want to call it. I think my reference is understood by most laypeople, right? I mean, most of us still think of the US as less of a Constitutional Republic and more of a Democracy, right?

Most people do not know what Communism really is, what they tend to
know is what the Soviet Union was and the basis of what Cuba and
PRChina are.

It casts Communism in a negative light, which is not a good thing, as a
true Communist state is not that bad of a thing, and indeed the end goal
of Communism is actually communal anarchy, which none of the countries
that are called Communist are in any way.

As for the united States, well we are really more an amalgam of things,
we are not strictly a constitutional republic anymore, but we are not a true
democracy either.

Using My space to spy is not even tickling the tip of the ice berg. The net in general is one big spy network to any government: not just the Chinese.

More to the point is that they are asking users to report other users. Some poor teenager with misguided common sence could be having people locked up and shot for having a bad day and having a bit of a grumble...

You never know who you are conversing with online, crazy world people

The point being that everyone got on Google's case for censoring in China, and now News Corp. is not only doing that, but they're encouraging its users to report anyone that could be politically dangerous. This goes far beyond what even most other companies like Yahoo and Microsoft have done, not to mention Google. Google at least has the courtesy to tell its Chinese users that its censoring. No one else will do that, and now MySpace China is encouraging it.

Originally posted by iori_komei
PRChina is NOT a Communist state, it is an amalgam based off of
Lenninist-Stallinism and Maoism, more recently with a capitalist streak.

When you add all that up you come up with National Socialism (Nazi).

No American company should be complicit in this. I will not use myspace anymore.

This is going over almost everyones head....China has nothing to do with this, It is Newscorp that is asking people to spy on each other...HOw long before they ask the same in the US, and other regions of the world..?

Originally posted by el fuego


This is going over almost everyones head....China has nothing to do with this, It is Newscorp that is asking people to spy on each other...HOw long before they ask the same in the US, and other regions of the world..?

That's a good question. But is seems more like corporate pandering than anything else.