In China, new threats seen to free speech
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BEIJING -- Citing concerns over the rising prevalence of pornography, the Chinese government recently launched a nationwide crackdown against Internet smut sites and pornography peddlers using new media outlets such as cellphone text messaging.
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New laws tighten grip on media, technology Beijing today attempted to defend sweeping new powers which gag foreign media and bar citizens from subscribing to news from abroad. The laws were published Sunday and went into effect immediately.â¦
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Chinese police will fan out across campuses and commercial districts in the coming months in a sweeping effort to stamp out publications that might threaten social stability, state media said Sunday.
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Backed by &quot;armies&quot; of cyber-police, China is spearheading an increasingly sophisticated movement by repressive regimes to restrict the Internet, a global media watchdog said in its annual report.
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Concern over Chinaâs use of surveillance technology  prompts new rules for U.S. exports.
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China announced rules on Sunday  requiring foreign media to seek approval from its state news  agency to distribute news, pictures and graphics domestically,  and warned against reports that "endanger national security."
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BEIJING, Jan. 8 -- Government officials from a county in northeastern China's Liaoning province were not pleased by a magazine story criticizing their local Communist Party leader. So they traveled nearly 500 miles to Beijing seeking to arrest the author.
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China's security chief tells officials to pay more attention to people's grievances, in the wake of increasing protests.
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The move is part of a government crackdown on graft by ChinaÂs president that has focused on prominent political opponents.
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Human rights advocates and Chinese dissidents say the arrest of an activist named Hu Jia is the most telling example of what they describe as a broadening crackdown on dissent.
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The Internet, mobile phones and other new technologies are making it harder for China&#39;s communist rulers to block negative news, a top government official said in comments published Monday.
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By Bruce Einhorn and Ben Elgin  Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft endured a wave of public disapproval earlier this year over their compliance with Chinese censorship of their websites.
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China's Communist Party tells its members that  corruption could threaten its hold on power.
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Concern over Chinaâs use of surveillance technology prompts new rules for U.S. exports.
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By Joseph Kahn New York Times News Service  BEIJING -- China imposed broad new restrictions Sunday on the distribution of foreign news in the country, beefing up state regulations on the news media.
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The Internet in China is not as  restricted as sometimes believed in the West, with most  controls actually coming from sites practicing self-censorship,  an academic who studies the Chinese Web said on Thursday.
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A fresh censorship wave is linked to next month's Party Congress.