“A web-surfing Chinese professor was nonplussed to find personal attacks against him posted on a blog,”the smh reports.”So when the operators of the hosting website refused to remove the offending language,he decided to sue them for harm to his reputation,in what Chinese media yesterday called the first such case to come before the country’s courts.Web site Blogcn.com had told Nanjing University journalism professor Chen Tangfa that it was up to individual bloggers,people who write their own or respond to others’ web logs, or blogs, to respect a code of conduct barring insulting or politically sensitive content,the official China Daily reported.By yesterday,the offensive remarks had been removed by the blog’s author,an apparent Nanjing University student identified only as “K007.”The author wrote in a posting dated Monday that he or she had not expected the blog would be read by people outside an immediate group of friends.”If anyone bears responsibility in this case,then it should be me,”the author wrote.Chen’s case is to be heard by the Nanjing Intermediate People’s Court next month,newspapers reported”.

Chinese professor sues blog host