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China gags chatroom users

edited March 2004 in Science & Tech
New Chinese regulations aimed at policing the Internet are being condemned by a media rights organisation, which also accuses a US-based Internet management company of colluding with the Government to stifle activism on the web.

[blockquote]"Reporters Without Borders condemned the latest Chinese effort to gag the Internet by means of directives to portals that have discussion groups," the group said.

"Discussion forums are used by millions of Chinese and, although closely monitored, they at least offered an outlet for popular discontent and criticism, but we fear these latest measures will just make Internet users censor themselves even more."
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[link=http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1055766.htm]The full story[/link]

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  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    Dear China:

    We invite your people here to short-media to discuss the current state of affairs within your borders. We will install unicode support on the webserver if you would prefer to keep discussions in your native tongue.

    Love,

    short-media.com
  • DogSoldierDogSoldier The heart of radical Amish country..
    edited March 2004
    Prime, you need to get someone to translate that into Chinese. Isn't Leishi an east asian of some stripe?
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