China shuts down media freedom site &#39;within hours&#39;
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China&#39;s Internet police took between five and eight hours to track down the new location of Reporters Without Borders&#39; Chinese language website and block it, the media freedom group said Wednesday.
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Politics: 19 September 2004, Sunday. Lithuania has temporarily shut down the website publishing information on the activities of Chechen rebel leaders.
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The latest in a series of  moves leading up to China&#39;s biggest Communist party meeting in  years saw broadcast media censors ban all &quot;vulgar&quot; and sexually  explicit material from the airwaves, state media reported  Tuesday.
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BEIJING  - Chinese authorities shut down 12,575 Internet cafes from October to December last year for operating illegally, most of them near schools, the government says.
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Reporters Without Borders said in its annual report on press freedoms that conditions for the news media and for journalists had deteriorated in China.
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China closed down 1,600 Internet cafes between February and August and imposed 100 million yuan, or 12 million US dollars, worth of fines for allowing children to play violent or adult-only games and other violations.
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ONE of the web&#39;s most popular file-sharing sites has shut down less than a week after Hollywood announced a flurry of lawsuits against operators of such Internet servers.
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China has banned &quot;sexually provocative sounds&quot; on television and pulled the plug on a show reconstructing infamous crimes by women ahead of a major Communist Party meeting next month.
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According to the Internet Society of China (ISC), 1129 pornographic web sites have been closed by the Ministry of Public Security since July, when the crackdown began.
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(InfoWorld) - Wikipedia's English site is blocked again in China, after over two months of being accessible, continuing a saga of on-again, off-again availability. Users in Shanghai and Beijing confirmed Wednesday and Thursday that they were no longer able to visit the site. Wikipedia's own account states that the block resumed on Aug. 31, although some users in China said the site has only been unavailable starting this week. China regularly blocks access to Web sites that it finds objectionable, including those dealing with politically sensitive subjects such as the Falun Gong religious cult and independence for Taiwan and Tibet, along with some pornographic sites. The Chinese government does not announce or comment on when a site is blocked or made available. Because the version of events or political views expressed on Wikipedia are not necessarily in line with those of the Chinese government, the government may be blocking access to the site. The current blocking may be related to the upcoming Communist Party Congress, which begins Oct. 15 in Beijing. Held once every five years, the meeting is the Chinese government's most important political gathering, used to create five-year plans, which are the bedrock of China's centrally-planned economy. It is also often used to reshuffle government positions or for leaders to consolidate their power. WhileÂ Wikipedia's English site is occasionally available, its Chinese-language sites are almost permanently blocked, although access is sometimes permitted for one or two days at a time. "Right now there seems to be an intensive government-mandated freeze on the Internet in China, particularly on Web sites with user-generated content," said Jeremy Goldkorn, editor of Danwei.org, a Beijing-based blog that covers China's media. "It seems that the attitude towards Web sites hosted abroad is also hostile right now, which may explain the latest block on Wikipedia." Â
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The Chinese government has closed 1,600 internet cafes and fined operators a total of $12 million for letting children access porn websites and play violent games, the government said, according to wired.
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The effect on YouTube and other sites isn't clear, but China says it will restrict broadcasting to state-owned or state-controlled providers.
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China is extending a ban that virtually locks out all foreign cartoons from airing between 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. in a bid to protect its fledgling domestic cartoon industry
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Reporters Without Borders criticized the Chinese government for what the press advocacy group considers a move to end anonymous blogging in the communist country.
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U.S. authorities working in an international investigation have shut down 20 independent news Web sites run by the Independent Media Center by seizing two U.K.-based Web servers, the group said.
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BEIJING, Sept. 12 -- Journalism and human rights groups on Tuesday blasted China's efforts to further control the distribution of news and financial information by foreign news agencies, saying revised regulations showed that the government was tightening censorship.
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US authorities have shut down 20 independent news websites run by the Independent Media Center (Indymedia) and seized two UK-based web servers.