Posted on 01/24/2007 2:27:42 PM PST by NormsRevenge
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese Communist Party chief Hu Jintao has vowed to "purify" the Internet, state media reported on Wednesday, describing a top-level meeting that discussed ways to master the country's sprawling, unruly online population.
Hu made the comments as the ruling party's Politburo -- its 24-member leading council -- was studying China's Internet, which claimed 137 million registered users at the end of 2006.
Hu, a strait-laced communist with little sympathy for cultural relaxation, did not directly mention censorship.
But he made it clear that the Communist Party was looking to ensure it keeps control of China's Internet users, often more interested in salacious pictures, bloodthirsty games and political scandal than Marxist lessons.
The party had to "strengthen administration and development of our country's Internet culture", Hu told the meeting on Tuesday, according to the official Xinhua news agency.
"Maintain the initiative in opinion on the Internet and raise the level of guidance online," he said. "We must promote civilized running and use of the Internet and purify the Internet environment."
In 2006, China's Internet users grew by 26 million, or 23.4 percent, year on year, to reach 10.5 percent of the total population, the China Internet Network Information Center said on Tuesday.
The vast majority of those users have no access to overseas Chinese Web sites offering uncensored opinion and news critical of the ruling party. But even in heavily monitored China, news of official misdeeds and dissident opinion has been able to travel through online bulletin boards and blogs.
Hu told officials to intensify control even as they seek to release the Internet's economic potential. "Ensure that one hand grasps development while one hand grasps administration," he said.
Maybe he and Harry Reid can trade tips.
After all, Reid and the Democrats want to "purify" talk radio, cable TV, and the Web of all that "unfair" right-wing extremism.
Hu's on first?
Whats funny is Taiwan has'nt ever been part of communist china.Japan was in control since 1895 until we defeated them in WW2 and let the real rulers of china have it back. Them came the murdering godless Mao who took over.Its not communist china's territory but the free people of the RoC(the real chinese government).
Them=then
typos...
For "purify" read "eliminate word of Chinese government corruption."
Hu's on first...
LOL! That is funny, but I'm still confused. Hu's on first??
ethnic cleansing?
"Chinese commies suck."
Hahaha, communists tried to kill me, I haven't forgotten that.
Chinese Communist Party chief Hu Jintao has vowed to "purify" the Internet
What a "Maroon!"
The modern generation is not excited by neo-Confucianism. Service to the state is not a priority. Look out, Hu! they want freedom and wealth, not control.
bttt
"Analysis: Yahoo's China problem
And, according toWikipedia
"Since announcing its intent to comply with Internet censorship laws in the People's Republic of China, Google China has been the focus of controversy over what critics view as capitulation to the "Golden Shield Project". Because of its self imposed censorship, whenever people search some Chinese government listed keywords, (those keywords are confidential), google.cn will list the following at the bottom of the page:"According to the local laws, regulations and policies, part of the searching result is not shown."...A PBS analysis reported clear differences between results returned for controversial keywords by the censored and uncensored search engines[6]. According to New York Times, Google has set up computer systems inside China that try to access Web sites outside the country. If a site is inaccessible (e.g., due to the Great Firewall), then it is added to Google China's blacklist.[7]"
I'm preparing myself for that eventuality. I already know that "tenminnut" means that I need to come back for my order. I also understand that "gai" or as "Wayne's World" would pronounce "guy", as in 'cream of sum yung gai" means chicken. Embrace diversity.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=tPrm6luPmME
You must be very young...here's the youtube....
This is the Commie equivalent to the "series of tubes" comments, or possibly Senator Orrin Hatch has found his soulmate.
No man made system can control 200 million human brains connected to a network... even if the network is encapsulated.
Hey, when you have a billion served, what's a few million lopped off here and there? The DUmmies and the Democrat party would even support something like this along egalitarian lines. In a twisted way of course.
Announcements by dim-witted bureaucrats about their plans for the Internet always make me giggle. The notion that a bunch of Chinese commie busybodies (or UN busybodies, in previous editions of this brand of silliness) are going to outsmart the global legions of pimply-faced kiddie-hackers operating out of their parents' basements is patently preposterous.
It'll be fun to watch if the Chinese really try this, but the outcome is a foregone conclusion. The script-kiddies are plenty impressive when they're just doing this stuff for kicks. When they're provoked into a serious mission they'll be awesome -- the commie-crats will be lucky if their OWN computer systems are still operational after the kiddies get done with this "purification" nonsense.
This must mean they have stolen every good idea they can from the internet and now they worry about what their citizens are looking at.......
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