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| China to Regulate Internet Map Publishing                          |
|   from the emblematic dept.                                        |
|   posted by timothy on Tuesday May 13, @10:07 (Censorship)         |
|   http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/13/1320233 |
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[0]hackingbear writes “After text, pictures, and videos, China starts
[1]regulating Internet map publishing (here is the [2]google translation.)
The government believes that Internet maps can represent the state’s
sovereignty and its political and diplomatic positions in the
international community — and consequently, inaccurate maps could harm
national interests and dignity, produce bad political influences, reveal
national secrets and harm national security, in addition to harming
consumer interests. So from now on, publishing maps would require
approval and (yet another) license from the state survey bureau. That
means Google, Yahoo, etc., need to remove China from the map; or maybe
they just pay up some officials and their agents to acquire yet another
license. And our newest [3]80Gbps DPI monsters need to be upgraded to
identify maps together with porn.”

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Links:
0. mailto:cutebear103 [Email address: cutebear103 #AT# hotmail.com - replace #AT# with @ ]
1. http://news.sina.com.cn/c/2008-05-13/032513866565s.shtml
2. http://www.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.sina.com.cn%2Fc%2F2008-05-13%2F032513866565s.shtml&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=zh-CN&tl=en
3. http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/12/1648223&tid=158