Posts Tagged with ‘china’

Today, a headline on BBC News read, “China leader urges net crackdown.” The story’s summary reads something to the effect that Chinese President Hu Jintao is now requiring that the Internet accessible by millions of now regularly connected countrymen and women be purged of “unhealthy” content. Of course, this comes after a myriad of dailies and weeklies in various parts of the world (not the least of which the United States) had spent a good deal of time, [...]

Chinese President Hu Jintao launched a campaign on Monday to rid the country of "unhealthy" content and utilize the Web as a springboard for Communist Party doctrine. Actually, the news of late has been headed towards this situation as Chinese officials have blamed the Internet of everything from youth violence and crime to Genghis Kahn's invasion from Mongolia.
In news from Reuters via Yahoo! state television reported that the 24 member Communist Party Politburo discussed cleaning up the Internet and [...]

A human rights group is suing Yahoo Inc. on the grounds that the company assisted China's communist government with torture and dropping dime on dissidents. The World Organization for Human Rights USA seeks unspecific damages and Yahoo's participation in securing the release of the dissidents. Just after I complimented them on being more internationally educated and more refined than Google too, it never fails.  
Yahoo! acknowledges turning over data to the Chinese government under penalty of law there according to an AP [...]

Reports out of Beijing blame the Internet for youth crime in China. Police spokesmen cited the negative influences of online pornography and violent content as a causal element in youth crime there. According to Wu Heping a spokesman for police in Beijing, recent cases involving youths show a disproportionate number to have been corrupted by online filth.
China has begun a crackdown on Internet porn recently and according to their figures almost 80 percent of young criminals have been seduced [...]