From: Steve Wingate
Subject: SNET: BBC: China targets 'enemies' on net
Date: 8 Nov 2000 01:14:23 -0500
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From: "Dunn, Steven J."
Subject: [SO] BBC: China targets 'enemies' on net
To: 'Frank Eak' , 'skywatch'
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Tuesday, 7 November, 2000, 09:52 GMT
China targets 'enemies'
on net
Beijing fears increasing boldness in chatrooms
China has launched a new attempt to gag
dissent on the internet by targeting chatrooms
and news sites.
Websites hosting chatrooms will be held
responsible for ensuring that users do not post
messages that could be interpreted by the
government as "illegal".
That means anything that is against the
constitution, threatens state security or
"harms China's honour and interests".
The regulations appear to be aimed at curbing
increasing boldness in Chinese chatrooms
where criticism of government policy has
grown.
Cyber protests
Earlier this year
students at Beijing
University used a
website to post
thousands of messages
mourning the murder of
a fellow student which
initially criticised
security on campus,
but later snowballed
into protests about the
educational system and
drew large gatherings
at the university.
The rules, published in
the state-run People's Daily newspaper, also
require websites not run by state media to
seek approval from the Information Office of
the State Council, or cabinet, before they may
publish news.
Commercial websites, many foreign-invested,
have been battling to attract viewers with
increasingly fast and open reporting of a wide
range of news, often written by their own
reporters or from foreign-based news services.
Now all such websites will be forbidden to
report or write news themselves, and must
sign contracts with state media organisations
before using their content.
They must also attribute the sources of
articles they publish, the rules state.
Websites are also required to hire a team of
editors with "relevant experience and mid-level
or higher expertise", suggesting they would
have to come from major media outlets, all of
which are state owned in China.
To publish news from
foreign sources,
websites must seek
special permission.
China has already shut
down websites tied to
the outlawed China
Democracy Party or
Falungong spiritual
group, and has blocked
access to foreign news
sites including the BBC,
Yahoo! and CNN.
The rules follow similar regulations issued in
January on the posting of "state secrets" on
the internet and regulations guiding internet
content providers issued in October.
The definition of "state secret" in China is so
broad that it could be used to refer to almost
any piece of information posted on the web
from China.
The BBC's Beijing correspondent reports that
some analysts say the rules may be hard to
enforce, while others believe they may further
damage the vitality of a sector which is still
struggling to make money and has suffered a
loss in investor confidence in recent months.
And that is despite the number of internet
users in China doubling in the first eight
months of this year to 16.9 million.
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