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[FYI] (Fwd) China installs Internet Police censorware




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Date sent:      	Tue, 7 Aug 2001 10:51:18 -0400 
From:           	Chris Chiu <CCHIU@aclu.org>
Subject:        	China installs Internet Police censorware
To:             	gilc-plan@gilc.org
Send reply to:  	gilc-plan@gilc.org

This comes from China's state Xinhua news agency:

"Over 800 Internet bars in this capital of northwest China's Shaanxi
Province recently installed a kind of Internet security software
called 'Internet Police' to enforce on-line safety regulations. ...

"[V]isitors attempting to enter banned web sites or pages will be
warned, and the screen will be automatically shielded off once the
page is opened. 

"Moreover, the 'Internet Police' are able to capture designated
computer screens and cast them on the screen of the central
controlling office under the local public security bureau, where
police will be on duty round the clock from the end of September, when
the installation work in all Internet bars in the city has been
finished. 

"The software also has several other functions including on-line
registration, automatic alarms and upgrades, information distribution,
and Internet surfing records tracing."

Read "Online Police Appear in Internet Bars in Xi'an," Xinhua News
Agency, Aug. 7, 2001 at
http://www.cnd.org/Global/01/08/07/010807-9.html

Sincerely,
Christopher Chiu
Global Internet Liberty Campaign Organizer
American Civil Liberties Union
125 Broad Street
New York NY 10004-2400
USA
Tel.: 212-549-2535
E-mail: cchiu@aclu.org


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