China and Citizen Media
May 17th, 2007 by Dan GillmorWall Street Journal: Why China Relaxed Blogger Crackdown. Now, the Ministry of Information Industry, the agency responsible for the policy, has abandoned plans for a law requiring all Chinese blog service providers to ask their users for verifiable personal details before they can start blogging. Instead, the government is going for the soft approach.
An outbreak of common sense in Beijing’s halls of power…
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