China to increase blog censorship
The director of China’s General Administration of Press and Publication, Long Xinmin, announced Tuesday that the Chinese Administration was formulating new rules to further regulate internet publishing, including blogs.
The SMH reporting on a Beijing Morning Post article quoted Long saying “We must recognize that in an era when the internet is developing at a breakneck pace, government oversight and control measures and means are facing new tests” to China’s National Parliament, going on to single out blogs as a particular challenges.
Remarkably, Long went on to say that despite the new regulations, “citizens’ freedom of expression would be fully protected”.
The Chinese Government already goes to great lengths in censoring what their bloggers publish, with bloggers currently subject to three layers of censorship according to a recent Asia Media report, initial software generated/ imposed censorship based on prohibited words, a second layer performed by a special team of censorship editors who read all blogs posts and delete offensive content that the software missed, and a third layer which in controlled by internet police officers (ed note: seriously!), officials from the Central Publicity Department, the State Council Information Office, the Ministry of Information Technology, or local communications administrations who also have the power to delete entire blogs, not just offending articles.
Related posts:
- Baidu Unveils Blog Search Engine
- Global Internet Freedom Consortium (GIFC) offers software to break through Internet blockade in China
- Burmese web surfers escape Internet censorship
- The Future of Dreamhost, and Why Blog Censorship Is A New Low
- Syria expands censorship, includes Internet cafes
[...] wrote a post at 901am on the latest efforts by the Chinese Government to further censor blogs and remembered that [...]
By Organising Information on March 13, 2007 5:11 pm
[...] China to increase blog censorship Things just got better. (tags: censorship) [...]
By links for 2007-03-21 at Baron VC on March 21, 2007 1:31 pm
Yes and the sheeple say nothing there are 6 billion sheeple to less than 1o thousand dictators. Stand up you sheeple of the Earth and crush your dictators.
By annoymous on April 18, 2007 7:31 pm
North. South. East. West. No matter where you’re headed in the U.S., Thrifty’s got a great rate on a great rental car. Even the Midwest, Northeast, South…well, you get the point. Great rates on great rental cars in great places. That’s Thrifty.
car exotic rental
By carluxur on May 17, 2007 11:18 am
[...] cited that other American companies like Skype, Cisco, Google, and Microsoft are also helping China censor the [...]
By The Chinese Connection | 901am on November 19, 2007 12:44 pm