Thursday, October 06, 2005

China/Internet/New Rules


NY Times: China Sets New Media Restrictions, This Time for the Internet

"China on Sunday imposed more restrictions on the news media, designed to limit the news and other information available to Internet users, and sharply restricted the scope of content permitted on Web sites."

"The rules are part of a broader effort to roll back what the Communist Party views as a threatening trend toward liberalization in the news media. Taken together, the measures amount to a stepped-up effort to police the Internet, which has become a dominant source of news and information for millions of urban Chinese."

"Major search engines and portals like Sina.com and Sohu.com, used by millions of Chinese each day, must stop posting their own commentary articles and instead make available only opinion pieces generated by government-controlled newspapers and news agencies, the regulations stipulate."

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