The China law blogs discussion in Chinalyst

While running the China Blog Awards things heated up quickly within the China law blogs category. I was preoccupied with various things in my personal life as I started receiving endless e-mails regarding comments that were posted on some of the China law blogs competing for the awards.

As I was unable to look into the issue, I quickly disabled the comments to cool things off till I can have a closer look. That brought in even more e-mails about unnecessary moderation in Chinalyst. Running the China Blog Awards, this is the last thing I thought I'll have to deal with, thinking that all of us China bloggers are one big happy family, and I can honestly say that I really do not like this new role forced upon me...

I've brought back the comments on the two winning blogs and will leave the blog with the problematic comments disabled. It has been a very difficult decision for me to make, but some of the discussion written there goes against all that has led me to build this site. Naturally, I also do not have the legal and financial resources to defend Chinalyst's freedom of speech in problematic legal situations.

My apologies if anybody was offended by anything written or by my decision. I ask that you please keep your comments decent and non-offensive. It will help me to focus my energies on more productive activities in promoting Chinalyst and the English language China blogosphere.

Fili