If you just technically adhere to the law, sometimes that's enough, sometimes it's not; it's really hard to predict. There is definitely a possibility that the Chinese authorities won't find it sufficient.
From Rebecca MacKinnon
The trend in China is toward tighter and tighter control. They are basically improving their censorship mechanisms.
Each of us has a vital role to play in building a world in which the government and technology serve the world's people and not the other way around.
Authoritarian systems evolve. Authoritarianism in the Internet Age is not your old Cold War authoritarianism.
Companies have choices to make about what extent they're handling their users' content.
Freedom only remains healthy if we think about the implications of what we do on a day-to-day basis.
Google attempted to run a search engine in China, and they ended up giving up.
The user in China wants the same thing that any Internet user wants - privacy in conversations, maximum access to information, and the ability to speak their minds online.
In China, the problem is that with the system of censorship that's now in place, the user doesn't know to what extent, why, and under what authority there's been censorship. There's no way of appealing. There's no due process.
It's harder and harder for journalists to get out in the field and interview Iraqis. The Web can get these voices out easily and cheaply.
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