Posted on 05/28/2005 1:06:56 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
50 minutes ago
BEIJING (AFP) - Chinese-run websites have until the end of May to register their sites or face being shut down as part of a new government campaign to police the Internet, a leading portal announced.
The registration drive is an effort by the Ministry of Information Industry to clamp down on fraud and other "unhealthy" activity on the Internet, the portal Sohu.com said.
"If you have not registered by June, then your website could be ordered shut down," the portal quoted an official from the Beijing communications bureau as saying.
The registration drive started in March and aims to issue registration numbers to all China-based websites, including commercial, government and personal sites, it said.
Hundreds of thousands of websites are expected to be registered, the portal said, without giving a precise figure.
The move is the latest in China's efforts to police the Internet and follow stringent efforts -- known as the Great Firewall of China -- to keep content authorities see as "unhealthy", like pornography and anti-government postings, off the web.
China already requires all users of Internet cafes to register before using the Internet, while major websites have signed onto a code of conduct to keep non-authorized content off their websites and chatrooms.
The Chinese government forecasts the country will have 120 million Internet users by the end of 2005, a figure that would mark a growth of nearly 28 percent from 94 million at the end of 2004.
China's online population has grown rapidly in recent years from just 620,000 in 1997 and is now the second largest Internet market in the world after the United States, according to China's official Xinhua news agency.
China welcomes the Internet as it is helping the economy leapfrog into the 21st century. But at the same time it is worried about the way the web enables people to access information that the authorities consider subversive.
Last year some 12,000 Internet cafes were shut down in China, many of them because they allowed access to pornography and under-aged gaming and some because they were not registered.
Ping!
All fascist oppressors are afraid of freedom and truth. Including the "Democrats"
Communism is bad for the soul.
What are you talking about? ipv6?
They are just seling switches and routers. Withut them there would not even be an internet there.
CNN.com: Washington - "FBI SPY CHIEF ASKS PRIVATE SECTOR FOR HELP" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "FBI Assistant Director for Counterintelligence David Szady, cited Russia, Iran, Cuba and North Korea among countries he said engage in espionage against the United States, but he focused heavily on activities by Chinese. "There are 150,000 students from China. Some of those are sent here to work their way up into the corporations," Szady said. There are about 300,000 Chinese visitors annually, and 15,000 Chinese delegations touring the United States every year, 3,500 of them in the New York area alone, he said.") (February 10, 2005) (Read More...)
NZHERALD.co.nz (REUTERS): Beijing - "CHINA GOES UNDERCOVER TO SWAY OPINION ON INTERNET" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "China has formed a special force of undercover online commentators to try to sway public opinion on controversial issues on the Internet, a newspaper said yesterday. China has struggled to gain control over the Internet as more and more people gain access to obtain information beyond official sources. The country has nearly 100 million Internet users, according to official figures, and the figure is rising. A special force of online commentators had already been operating in Suqian city in the eastern coastal province of Jiangsu since April, the Southern Weekend said.") (May 20, 2005) (Read More...) (Note: This url may expire.)
Hitlery looks at this move by the ChiComs and simultaneously drools and orgasms.
I saw this press release a few days ago and was wondering if this was some initial step of an 'internet' overseer.
http://www.pr.com/press-release/1431
WSI Introduces International Internet Consultant Advisory Council
WSI Introduces International Internet Consultant Advisory Council
Toronto, Canada, May 20, 2005 --(PR.COM)-- WSI’s Toronto-based headquarters announces the creation of an Internet Consultant Leadership Advisory Council to create additional value for their worldwide network of Internet Consultants (ICs). This new initiative affirms WSI’s ongoing commitment to understanding the various needs and opportunities of its Internet Consultants and will enhance communication within the network so as to improve the allocation of resources to better meet the needs of the system and enable even greater growth and success.
The Council, made up of 12 Internet Consultants representing WSI’s major global markets, has been selected via a network-wide nomination process. The selected Council members represent: Canada, Central/South America, Europe, New Zealand/Australia, the UK and Ireland and the United States. They will hold their seats on the Council for a minimum of 1 year during which they will solicit the feedback and suggestions from groups of ICs in the regions they represent.
The structure of the Council has been established to facilitate the flow of information and innovation, in both directions, between WSI’s Home Office and its international network of Internet Consultants serving over 1000 local markets worldwide. Meetings of the Council will function as forums for presenting and discussing matters that concern the entire network and enable the open sharing of information. Areas of focus will include promoting better communication within the WSI e-Marketplace, improving relationships, facilitating cooperation on marketing and advertising, enhancing business operations, training, as well as product introduction, selection and development. It is the role of the Council to evaluate recommendations and innovations from around the world and use this input to contribute to exploiting new opportunities and furthering WSI’s objective of being the number one provider of Internet Solutions to small- and medium-sized business customers.
Building on WSI’s global reach with a local presence approach to business, the Council will help WSI’s Home Office gain more insight into regional market needs, and proactively anticipate issues its local Internet Consultants may face. Working from these insights, Council members will act in an advisory capacity in the rollout of new initiatives, thereby improving the effectiveness of the network as a whole.
The first meeting of the Council will take place on Monday, May 30th in Toronto, Canada. Future meetings are scheduled to coincide with WSI’s Excellence and Innovation Conferences, where its Internet Consultants convene to celebrate achievements and share their best-practices and innovations with the entire network.
WSI President Ron McArthur recently shared his enthusiasm about the Internet Consultant Advisory Council with the WSI network: “I am sincerely pleased at the tremendous response this new initiative has garnered from the IC community throughout the nomination process and in the feedback we continue to receive, and, I am excited to begin working with the 12 outstanding ICs that make up this Council. I have no doubt that this collaborative effort will reap incredible results for the entire network.”
About WSI
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Nortel and Cisco? What are you talking about?
After I posted, I figured it must be something like that.
Shameful. Guess they are warming up for hillary.
Yep. So is leftism.
So what? They are building to the user requirements. The problem with China is a whole another debate and has nothing to do with Nortel and Cisco.
Yeah, following your logic, a construction company could build a gas chamber for SS to kill political prisoners and still claim that they just followed the "user requirement."
Perhaps in pure business terms, it is merely "following an user requirement." However, it has grave political ramification, aiding and abetting oppression in Cyberspace. Surely, from the specs Chinese gave them, they would know how the system would be used. They must know that Chinese regime is not the champion of freedom and privacy.
Gas Chamber? Give me a break. Thanks for your opinion.
Remember the embargos against high grade machinery and software that might enable tyrants to build nuclear devices ?
I'm sorry. It seems some have forgotten what the article was about and wandering off the cliff of reality. No time for this nonsense. Have a nice day - it's the Lords day.
I wonder if Free Republic be under dont' not look website
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