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[GILC-plan] China issues new Net censor laws

------- Forwarded message follows ------- From: Chris Chiu <CCHIU@aclu.org> To: gilc-plan@gilc.org Date sent: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 13:08:25 -0500 Subject: [GILC-plan] China issues new Net censor laws

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"China has issued its most intrusive Internet controls to date, ordering service providers to screen private e-mail for political content and holding them responsible for subversive postings on their Web sites. ...

"Under the new rules, general portal sites must install security programs to screen and copy all e-mail messages sent or received by users. Those containing 'sensitive materials' must be turned over to authorities.

"Providers are also responsible for erasing all prohibited content posted on their Web sites, including online chatrooms and bulletin boards.

"The new rules include a long list of banned content prohibiting writings that reveal state secrets, hurt China's reputation or advocate the overthrow of communism, ethnic separatism or 'evil cults.'

"The last category covers the Falun Gong spiritual movement, which has frequently resorted to the Internet to defy a harsh two-year crackdown.

"Pornography and violence are also prohibited."

See "China creates stern Internet, e-mail rules," Associated Press, Jan. 18, 2002, temporarily available at http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2002/01/18/china-internet.htm

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 _______________________________________________ GILC-plan mailing list GILC-plan@mailman.gilc.org https://mailman.gilc.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gilc-plan

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