Fwd: [discuss] China sets new rules on Internet news

["Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

FYI.

- ferg


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The Great Firewall of China just got a little tighter.

Via Reuters:

[snip]

China set new regulations on Internet news content on Sunday, widening a campaign of controls it has imposed on other 
Web sites, such as discussion groups.

"The state bans the spreading of any news with content that is against national security and public interest," the 
official Xinhua news agency said in announcing the new rules, which took effect immediately.

The news agency did not detail the rules, but said Internet news sites must "be directed toward serving the people and 
socialism and insist on correct guidance of public opinion for maintaining national and public interests."

Established news media needed permission to run a news Web site, it said. New operators had to register themselves with 
government information offices.

[snip]

http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=9747010

- ferg


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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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