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Subject: [iwar] [fc:China.Issues.Internet.Controls]
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Friday January 18 10:10 AM ET China Issues Internet Controls
China Issues Internet Controls

By MARTIN FACKLER, Associated Press Writer

BEIJING (AP) - 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. 

The new rules, posted earlier this week on the Web site of the Ministry of
Information Industry, represent Beijing's latest efforts to tighten its grip
on the only major medium in China not already under state control.

The regulations also create new difficulties for a competitive industry
trying to attract more overseas investment.

Foreign software makers must now guarantee in writing that their products do
not contain hidden programs that would allow spying or hacking into Chinese
computers. The rules also require computers playing an important role in
Chinese networks to use only domestic software.

Many in the industry had hoped for a more liberal climate following China's
entry into the World Trade Organization (news - web sites). But the rules
pointed to Beijing's resolve to keep the Web from being used to spread
opposition to Communist Party rule.

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 (news - web sites) spiritual
movement, which has frequently resorted to the Internet to defy a harsh
two-year crackdown.

Pornography and violence are also prohibited.

Authorities have struggled to deal with the Internet since it took off in
China in the mid-1990s. They want to prevent it from becoming a forum for
political discontent without harming its value to business and education.

China issued its first guidelines on Internet content in late 2000,
requiring providers to monitor online chatrooms and bulletin boards and keep
records of users' viewing times, addresses and telephone numbers.

In a country where other major media only mouth the party line, the Internet
is often a lively site of impassioned debate. When a fireworks explosion at
a southern Chinese school killed dozens of children last year, a flurry of
postings criticized the official version blaming a lone bomber and repeated
foreign news reports that teachers had forced the children to make
firecrackers. 

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