title: Implications of China's latest statute on internet and the forthcoming real-name registration scheme

authors: Liao, Zhixiong (Leo)

abstract: A scheme called 'real name registration of information network users' is required to be implemented in China by the end of June 2014. Presumably this scheme is based on the NPC Standing Committee's latest legislation on internet titled Decisions on Strengthening the Protection of Network Information, which imposes on ISPs and ICPs not only obligations to protect online personal information and privacy but also the obligation to collect their clients' true identity information. The latest internet-related legislation and the forthcoming 'real-name registration' scheme raises the question whether the Chinese Government is changing its policy, law and/or the law enforcement regime on regulating the internet contents. Are they merely a disguised internet content control toughening, or something indicating a new trend of China's internet regulation, that is, paying more attention to the protection of online privacy? Does the new legislation add anything new to China's pre-existing legal framework and enforcement mechanism for internet content regulation? Is the Chinese Government sacrificing citizens' freedom of speech for privacy? What are the most possible implications of the latest internet-related statutory legislation and the forthcoming 'real-name registration' scheme? This paper draw its conclusions mainly based on in-depth analyses of China's pre-existing internet regulation regime and the new legislation.

text: Implications of China's latest statute on internet and the forthcoming real-name registration scheme A scheme called 'real name registration of information network users' is required to be implemented in China by the end of June 2014. Presumably this scheme is based on the NPC Standing Committee's latest legislation on internet titled Decisions on Strengthening the Protection of Network Information, which imposes on ISPs and ICPs not only obligations to protect online personal information and privacy but also the obligation to collect their clients' true identity information. The latest internet-related legislation and the forthcoming 'real-name registration' scheme raises the question whether the Chinese Government is changing its policy, law and/or the law enforcement regime on regulating the internet contents. Are they merely a disguised internet content control toughening, or something indicating a new trend of China's internet regulation, that is, paying more attention to the protection of online privacy? Does the new legislation add anything new to China's pre-existing legal framework and enforcement mechanism for internet content regulation? Is the Chinese Government sacrificing citizens' freedom of speech for privacy? What are the most possible implications of the latest internet-related statutory legislation and the forthcoming 'real-name registration' scheme? This paper draw its conclusions mainly based on in-depth analyses of China's pre-existing internet regulation regime and the new legislation.

year: 2015

title: The nature of disagreement: matters of taste and environs

authors: Wyatt, Jeremy

abstract: Predicates of personal taste (PPT) have attracted a great deal of attention from philosophers of language and linguists. In the intricate debates over PPT, arguably the most central consideration has been which analysis of PPT can best account for the possibility of faultless disagreement about matters of personal taste. I argue that two models of such disagreement—the relativist and absolutist models—are empirically inadequate. In their stead, I develop a model of faultless taste disagreement which represents it as involving a novel incompatibility relation between preferences that I call type-noncotenability. This model is available to all parties in the ongoing debates about PPT, but it points up an advantage enjoyed by expressivist accounts of PPT. In closing, I consider four objections against the model that, while failing to fully undermine it, open up promising avenues of inquiry about the nature of disagreement.

text: The nature of disagreement: matters of taste and environs Predicates of personal taste (PPT) have attracted a great deal of attention from philosophers of language and linguists. In the intricate debates over PPT, arguably the most central consideration has been which analysis of PPT can best account for the possibility of faultless disagreement about matters of personal taste. I argue that two models of such disagreement—the relativist and absolutist models—are empirically inadequate. In their stead, I develop a model of faultless taste disagreement which represents it as involving a novel incompatibility relation between preferences that I call type-noncotenability. This model is available to all parties in the ongoing debates about PPT, but it points up an advantage enjoyed by expressivist accounts of PPT. In closing, I consider four objections against the model that, while failing to fully undermine it, open up promising avenues of inquiry about the nature of disagreement.

year: 2021-01-01

title: Te Ahi Kā

authors: Temara, Pou

subjects: Ahi kā

abstract: Ko te urutaumatua o tēnei tuhinga, ko te matapaki i te ahi kā. He aha tēnei tikanga? I pēhea i ara ake ai? He aha ōna mātāpono, ōna taipitopito? Koia te tūāpapa mō te tuhinga nei. Tuarua, ko te wānanga i te tikanga Māori me ōna rerenga pērā i te whakapapa. Ko te pātai ka puta i tēnei wāhanga o te wānanga ko tēnei nā, he aha te wāhi o te whakapapa ki te ahi kā? Ko te ngako o tēnei tuhinga ko te wetewete i te tikanga ahi kā kia whai tikanga ai te whakataukī nei, ‘ko te ahi kā te mana o te hapū ki te whenua’.

text: Te Ahi Kā Ko te urutaumatua o tēnei tuhinga, ko te matapaki i te ahi kā. He aha tēnei tikanga? I pēhea i ara ake ai? He aha ōna mātāpono, ōna taipitopito? Koia te tūāpapa mō te tuhinga nei. Tuarua, ko te wānanga i te tikanga Māori me ōna rerenga pērā i te whakapapa. Ko te pātai ka puta i tēnei wāhanga o te wānanga ko tēnei nā, he aha te wāhi o te whakapapa ki te ahi kā? Ko te ngako o tēnei tuhinga ko te wetewete i te tikanga ahi kā kia whai tikanga ai te whakataukī nei, ‘ko te ahi kā te mana o te hapū ki te whenua’.

year: 2012-05