Comment: It's premature to legislate ban on human flesh search

January 18, the "Regulations on the Security Protection of Computer Information Systems in Xuzhou City" was passed at the seventh meeting of the Standing Committee of the 11th Provincial People's Congress, and will come into effect on June 1, 2009. The regulations prohibit human flesh search engines, violators can be fined up to 5000 yuan. (Yangtze Evening News January 19: "Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province Bans Human Flesh Search Engines by Legislation; Violators Can Be Fined Up To 5000 Yuan"). Since its birth, the human flesh search engine has been walking on the tightrope between law and morality, with both good and bad things said about this network behavior. In my estimation, certain government officials hate human flesh search engines the most, especially after Zhou Jiugeng, real estate bureau chief of a district in Nanjing, was forced to resign after it was revealed through a human flesh search that he smoked extremely expensive cigarettes and wore world famous watches.