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January 27th - February 2nd previous reviews -- 1/27 1/20 1/13 1/6
Over the past week, China's reining in of Internet freedoms appeared to continue with the announcement by the Hong Kong based Information Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Movement in China last Wednesday that the Ministry of Public Security has ordered stepped up monitoring of computer bulletin boards and online chat rooms. According to the centre, any "counter revolutionary" bulletin boards that are discovered during the newly ordered "24 hour watch" must be shut down immediately and efforts made to determine the identities of those who posted information. Although there has been no official confirmation of this new monitoring, China's Jinacha Ribao, an official newspaper of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, printed an editorial critical of several popular Chinese BBS's on January 27th. The editorial complained that remarks on the BBS's have gone further than those on "big character posters" during the Cultural Revolution.Relevant articles and links below:
Mainland may have lost count of Net users  © Kenneth Neil Farrall 1999 | ||||||
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