China sets new rules on Internet news

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[news=http://www.enchantedlearning.com/asia/china/flagsmall.GIF]BEIJING (Reuters) - China set new regulations on Internet news content on Sunday, widening a campaign of controls it has imposed on other Web sites, such as discussion groups.

"The state bans the spreading of any news with content that is against national security and public interest," the official Xinhua news agency said in announcing the new rules, which took effect immediately.
The news agency did not detail the rules, but said Internet news sites must "be directed toward serving the people and socialism and insist on correct guidance of public opinion for maintaining national and public interests."


Established news media needed permission to run a news Web site, it said. New operators had to register themselves with government information offices. China has a dedicated band of cyber police who patrol the Internet with the aim of regulating content. Postings that criticize the government or address sensitive topics are quickly removed.

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...092500310.html[/news]

[Virtualbody1234]

Anything to stop Internet news.

[peat moss]

Sad really , and we complain about the RIAA kinda puts in perspective .

[SodiumChloride]

Looks like the internet will slowly tear China's political system apart. They can't stop the internet. When more and more chinese get rich enough to afford the internet, the gov't will have less and less support of the people.