China to monitor all Net use

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Friday, April 11, 2003

[JohnHuang2]

China's communist government announced last week that it is seeking to erect a "national boundary" to restrict access to the Internet, reports intelligence newsletter Geostrategy-Direct.

The official Xinhua news agency stated April 1 the boundary would be an attempt to "exercise cyber monitoring or limiting."

The goal is to "find and sanction vicious Internet-based activities which are harmful to China and its people's interests," according to Hu Mingzeng, director of the Computer Network and System Security Research Center at Harbin Industrial University in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province.

China has an estimated 60 million Internet users, and Chinese authorities periodically conduct crackdowns on Internet cafes and arrest users who access "unauthorized" information, such as information about the banned Falun Gong religious group or foreign media outlets.

Internet use has become "a seedbed for illegal activities," Xinhua stated.

China has outlawed gambling, pornography, hacking, the "tipoff of state secrets," terrorism and governmental subversion through the Internet.

"China has established a special cyber police force to intensify real-time monitoring, to intercept and delete harmful information and to capture and check illegal server data," Xinhua stated.

Chinese authorities plan to monitor Internet use by surveilling keyboard activity and using other electronic measures.

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[JohnHuang2]

Friday, April 11, 2003

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[JudgemAll]

The goal is to "find and sanction vicious Internet-based activities which are harmful to China and its people's interests,"

Vicious according to whom? Whose peace of mind are we protecting here?

[Caipirabob]

Sounds like they're going to behead all Chinese FReepers. You just know that Hillary is taking notes...

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

China is the country to which American businesses have completely sold their souls. By buying Chinese products made by prison and slave labor, we prop up butchering, torturing tyrants whose inhumanity crys out for "regime change." The Chinese, for decades, have committed atrocities, in scope and number, beyond Saddam Hussein's wildest dreams.

China is a REAL nuclear threat RIGHT NOW! It has publicly threatened the United States with the use of nuclear ICBM's.

If the measure of forced regime change is a murderous, undemocratic government threatening the U.S. and others in the world with weapons of mass destruction, CHINA NEEDS A FORCED GOVERNMENTAL CHANGE MORE DESPERATELY THAN IRAQ!

[Enduring Freedom]

China's censorship, limits on freedom and black pantsuits are a Liberal Marxist Socialist's Wet Dream.

Another 'Rat government will be the end of America.

LIVE FREE OR DIE

[Red6]

Free thought, the free flow of ideas and western news threatens their regime.

[SpinyNorman]

Will the now defunct human shields for Saddam be strapping themselves to Chinese computers? Probably not. They don't seem to mind people being subjugated, tortured or repressed, only liberated.

[strela]

Good (and I'm only being a little facetious). Maybe they'll start doing something about the terabytes of spam flowing from Chinese servers every day.

[BJungNan]

This story is so old. Must be having a slow news days at NewsMax. The Chinese have been monitoring the net for years, just as do many other governments including the U.S.

What they don't tell you in the NewsMax story are the sites that are blocked and more interesting the sites that are not. For example, the Washington Times in not Blocked while the washington post is.

And by the way, FreeRepublic is accessible in China also.

[zook]

Are you in China? I just left there. I could get CNN and MSNBC, but not Drudge and not Free Republic. I was only on line for 30 minutes and it could have been a coincidence (not being able to get the latter two, I mean). Andrew Sullivan was also accessable.

[BJungNan]

I live in China most of the year. At present I am in the U.S. so perhaps in the past few weeks something has changed. I should have qualified my comments. Still, I have seen this reported so many times as I was in China accessing what I was told was blocked, thus my comment.

Also, there are times when you can not get a particular site but then it comes back up. Hotmail is sometimes down like this, really slow and unusable for as much as a week at a time.

[maui_hawaii]

I agree. This is very old news. The last time I was in China pages were up and down all the time.

I think part of the way the Chinese govt operates is not to completely block everything, but to open it, and monitor who goes there and what those people's reactions are.

Also, Chinese media uses American media as a tool to create their own propaganda.

They are trying to form the 'national opinion' of China bit by bit.

Most people on average couldn't read the Times, or Post either one for that matter. The CCP knows who/what they are looking for.