- Countries:
- China, South Korea
- Topics:
- Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights
- Languages:
- English
Rebecca MacKinnon from Rconversation discussed the implementation of real name registration in online discussion and pointed out that the system, started from South Korea, is becoming a global trend.
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On PetitionSpot, a new petition goes on to ask China officials to stop registering “Khoomii” or Mongolian throat singing in their Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in UNESCO.
Mr. Friday on mmdays.com discusses how some people create fraudulent facebook fan page using photos of beautiful girls or logos of famous companies like MSN and Google(zh). The amount of fans can thus be sold to other businesses for promotion and marketing purpose. Mr. Friday asks Facebook to look into this rampant problem among Traditional Chinese users before these “dark marketing” become a viciou circle that ruins Facebook itself.
C. Custer from ChinaGeek looks into the China education system and discusses its impact on young people.
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