MySpace Forces Chinese Users Self-discipline

The U.S. social networking website MySpace is asking its Chinese users who registered from China, to move their accounts from U.S-based server MySpace.com to China-based server MySpace.cn, by Wednesday, otherwise users will face having their accounts deleted, reported by Interfax– an organization providing politics and business news in Asia area.

Luo Chuan, CEO of Myspace China Site- MySpace.cn, told Interfax of the decision but deny to give details.

This happens just a few days later after blog service providers in China were asked to sign “self-discipline pact”with the government, including Microsoft and Yahoo, who also have their Chinese language website hosted in China.

The forced migration is obvious a step to force the Chinese user to follow the order of  self-discipline.

The report said:

“A notice on MySpace.com to users logging on from China gave two options. The first is to move their accounts to MySpace.cn, which is “governed under the laws and regulations of the People’s Republic of China including any such laws and regulations requiring disclosure of one’s data.” The second option is to delete their current MySpace.com account and then re-register on the site. Although this latter option would allow Chinese users to stay on MySpace.com, they would lose their existing data “due to technical reasons”, according to the notice.

Users who fail to make a choice by Wednesday will have their accounts deleted. “

By doing this, Myspace has put itself into a role as part of Chinese government’s law enforcement, though it’s a U.S business company.