China Cracks Down on Blogs, Search Engines
By The Associated Press | The New York Times
30 June 2006
BEIJING (AP) -- China's Internet regulators are stepping up controls on blogs and search engines to block material it considers unlawful or immoral, the government said Friday.
''As more and more illegal and unhealthy information spreads through the blog and search engine, we will take effective measures to put the BBS, blog and search engine under control,'' said Cai Wu, director of the Information Office of China's Cabinet, quoted by the official Xinhua News Agency.
The government will step up research on monitoring technology and issue ''admittance standards'' for blogs, the report said, without providing any details.
China encourages Internet use for business and education but tries to block access to obscene or subversive material. It has the world's second-biggest population of Internet users after the United States, with 111 million people online.
China launched a campaign in February to ''purify the environment'' of the Internet and mobile communications, Xinhua said.
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I'm very curious to see how China is going to handle the 2008 Olympics. And I have to laugh when I see their slogan "One World, One Dream".
One World? One Dream?
Hopefully this game would force Chinese government to open up and eventually bring more freedom to China somehow at the end..