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The top ten blog service providers (BSP) in China have signed a pact to urge bloggers to -

1. follow generally accepted moral standards

2. obey legal rules in their postings

3. uphold their "social responsibilities."

4. encourage identification verification during registration

The pact was created in cooperation with government-backed Internet Society of China.

The measures are designed to combat:

1. bloggers who attack others

2. bloggers who violate copyrights

3. bloggers who infringe on people's privacy

4. bloggers who spread pornography

5. bloggers who spread illegal content

The pact is not legally binding and the greatest punishment to the BSPs is to be blacklisted by the news media.

Bloggers can booted off by the BSPs.

Some 70% of China's 137 million Internet users either read, write or do both with blogs.

Blogs are the fastest growing web service.

Do you keep a blog?