China&#39;s e-crackdown
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Citing its concern for the effects of violent and pornographic content on China&#39;s impressionable youth, Beijing permanently closed down 1,600 Internet cafes and suspended the operations of another 18,000 between February and August.
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The arrests and seizures came at a time American politicians and executives are pressing China to take strong measures to curb software piracy.
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(InfoWorld) - The Chinese government took steps during 2006 toÂ increase its controlÂ and monitoring of Internet access by the country's growing Internet population, the U.S. Department of State said in a human-rights report released on Tuesday. "While the government continued to encourage expanded use of the Internet, it also took steps to monitor its use, control content, restrict information, and punished those who violated regulations," the annual report said. Among the steps implemented by the government are stricter requirements for Web-site registration, greater official control over content, and a wider definition of what constitutes illegal activity online, it said. The Country Reports on Human Rights Practices are published annually by the State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. ChinaÂ has nearly 140 million Internet users, according to the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), which tracks Internet usage in the country. The large number of Internet users has not eroded the government's ability to control access to content it deems undesirable, said the State Department, citing reports that the Chinese government employes "tens of thousands of persons" to monitor the Internet. "The authorities reportedly began to employ more sophisticated technology enabling the selective blocking of specific content rather than entire Web sites. Such technology was also used to block e-mails containing sensitive content," the report said. The Chinese government has alsoÂ enlisted the help of domestic and multinational companiesÂ to restrict access to information on the Internet. "Chinese search engines such as Baidu.com and the China-based search engines of Yahoo, MSN, and Google filtered search results, including those relating to the Voice of America, Radio Free Asia, and human rights," it said.
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Prowling the net for 'illicit' activity China has announced it will this Saturday send out two virtual coppers to patrol all Beijing-based news portals, websites and online forums as part of the Communist state's ongoing war against "illicit" net activity, Reuters reports.â¦
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Chinese authorities shut down more than 12,575 Internet cafes from October to December last year for operating illegally, the government said.
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China has decided to restrict the broadcasting of Internet videos Â including those posted on video-sharing Web sites Â to sites run by state-controlled companies and require providers to report questionable content to the government.
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BEIJING  -- Fearful of soaring Internet addiction  and juvenile crime, China has banned the opening of new  Internet cafes this year, state media reported on Tuesday.
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China said it would issue new rules cracking down on âundesirableâ elements of online games amid fears of growing Internet addiction as the number of players soars.
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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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China has suffered &quot;massive&quot; 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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The search outfit boasts of making all the information in the world just a click away. These days that doesn&#39;t seem to apply in China.
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China is tightening control over its online music and game industries, ordering distributors to submit all imported products for approval by official censors, the government said Tuesday.
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China said Thursday it faced "very big difficulties" coping with rampant piracy on the Internet and called for international help to make an ongoing crackdown more effective.
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The case, along with the detention of a Chinese researcher for The New York Times, has prompted international concern about ChinaÂs crackdown on press freedom.
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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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The Chinese government has shut down 1,600 Internet cafes during 2004 and hit thousands more with fines and temporary closures. The country&#39;s Culture Ministry claims that the shuttered establishments
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A massive arsenal of guns has been seized by police in a crackdown on illegal weapons bought over the internet.