Proposals for SPC

Shanghai Daily reports on Proposals for SPC:

One quote in particular caught my attention:
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•Zhang Wenrong, an SPC delegate from Huangpu District, submitted a bill calling on the SPC to enact laws to control the rampant spread of "information rubbish."

He said in his bill that our life is largely disturbed by various kinds of information rubbish including spam e-mail, advertising flyers, false advertisements, and unwanted mobile messages.
However, there is no law to restrict people from sending spam or unwanted text messages.

In his suggested law, Zhang proposed the government set up a complaint-reception hot line to monitor those who produce information rubbish. The government should also establish a special task force tackle the problem.

He said the law should also set concrete penalties for those who produce information rubbish.
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Zhang Wenrong captures the essence of the symptom but I do not believe that laws will capture the nature of the underlying problem. When it becomes unacceptable within society to interrupt people's lives with information rubbish, the market will go away. And when it becomesunacceptablee to respond to the information rubbish - the customers will go away. With no brands to send advertising and no customers who respond to the advertising, the industry goes away by itself.

But how do we change the cultural views?


SPC: Shanghai People's Congress