标题: China toughens rules on Internet news(转贴) [打印本页] 作者: 狮子王 时间: 2005-9-26 10:23 标题: China toughens rules on Internet news(转贴) BEIJING (AFP) - China's propaganda minders have tightened the rules on domestic Internet sites in an effort to curb "unhealthy news stories" on the web, state press reported.
The new regulations were issued by the information office of the State Council, China's cabinet, on Sunday, the China Daily reported.
"We need to better regulate the online news services with the emergence of so many unhealthy news stories that will easily mislead the public," a State Council spokesman was quoted as saying.
Bulletin board services and short messaging services that transmit news stories will also be subject to the new regulations, the report said Monday.
News sites that publish "fabricated information, pornography, gambling or violence" face severe punishment or shutdowns, it said.
The move is the latest in China's efforts to police the Internet and follow stringent efforts -- known as the Great Firewall of China -- to keep content authorities see as "unhealthy", like pornography and anti-government postings, off the web.
China's ruling Communist Party controls all media outlets in the country.
China already requires all users of Internet cafes to register before using the Internet, while major websites have signed onto a code of conduct to keep non-authorized content off their websites and chatrooms.
According to the new regulations, all news websites must now re-register with the State Council or with provincial-level government information offices.
"Media attached to the central government or directly under provincial governments are not allowed to provide any stories to other online news sites without approval," the paper said.
The state would also open up a website for people to report unhealthy news in an effort to "help information departments at all levels supervise news sites," it said.
The Chinese government forecasts the country will have 120 million Internet users by the end of 2005, a figure that would mark a growth of nearly 28 percent from 94 million at the end of 2004.
China's online population has grown rapidly in recent years from just 620,000 in 1997, and it is now the second largest Internet market in the world after the United States, according to the official Xinhua news agency.
China welcomes the Internet as it is helping the economy leapfrog into the 21st century. But at the same time Beijing is worried about the way the web enables people to access information that the authorities consider subversive.
Last year some 12,000 Internet cafes were shut down in China, many of them because they allowed access to pornography and under-aged gaming and some because they were not registered.
China has also issued a series of stringent regulations aimed at restricting online gaming.作者: 邪明少 时间: 2005-9-26 10:35 标题: Re: China toughens rules on Internet news(转贴) [M20]
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[M24]作者: chwf 时间: 2005-9-26 11:33 标题: Re: China toughens rules on Internet news(转贴) [M11] [M11]作者: lindows 时间: 2005-9-26 11:55 标题: Re: China toughens rules on Internet news(转贴) 英语太难了,还是学习一下古文吧
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