State Dept. Human Rights Report Faults China's Curbs on Internet
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China is at the top of a list of countries blocking  Internet access, and  Russia and Venezuela have shown serious regression  in several  areas, mainly in centralizing power in the executive branch, according to State Department officials who released the department's annual human rights report...
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China remains "highly repressive," with routine violations of basic rights and widespread corruption despite promises of legal and political reform, the U.S.-based group Human Rights Watch said Friday.
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Microsoft Corp , Google Inc   and Yahoo Inc  have breached the Universal  Declaration on Human Rights in colluding with China to censor  the Internet, Amnesty International said on Thursday.
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China's government has strategically deployed the Internet to economic advantage, while clamping down on undesirable content and use.
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China will take a new step Thursday to tighten control of the Internet when rules go into force limiting online video-sharing to state companies
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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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China is blocking access to the Web site Google News, media watchdog Reporters Without Borders said on Tuesday, and accused the US-based company of being complicit by filtering its Chinese-language site.
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China shouldn't punish people for expressing their political views online, says the company that provided the information to the Chinese so they could nail a dissident.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc.'s recently launched news service in China doesn't display results from Web sites blocked by that country's authorities, raising prickly questions for an online search engine that has famously promised to "do no evil."   Dynamic Internet Technology Inc., a research firm striving to defeat online censorship, conducted tests that found Google omits results from the government-banned sites if search requests are made through computers connecting to the Internet in China.    Steered by an identical search request, computers with a United States connection retrieved results from the sites blocked by China...
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China defended its record on religious freedom Thursday, saying all Chinese can worship as they choose with no restrictions, and it blasted a U.S. government report that said Beijing persecutes some believers.
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Fictional gay cowboys and a faux reporter from Kazakhstan suffered human rights abuses in 2006 as crackdowns on flesh and blood victims were extended to the Internet, award-winning films and noted plays worldwide, the State Department says.
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China should not punish people for expressing their political views on the Internet, Yahoo Inc. said Monday, a day after the mother of a Chinese reporter announced she was suing the U.S. company for helping officials imprison her son.
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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 shut down 44,000 Web sites and arrested 868 people for Internet pornography last year, state media said Wednesday.
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China has suffered "massive" losses of state secrets through the Internet, a senior official said, as China faces reports that it has raided the computer networks of Western powers.
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China will allow only state-run Web sites to broadcast video or radio through the Internet, tightening the governmentâs regulatory grip over the media content offered there.
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China hit back on Tuesday at critics of its human rights record, saying the world was using the Olympics, which Beijing will host in August, as an excuse to make a villain out of its government.