Web Users Urged to Help Chinese Censors

Web Users Urged to Help Chinese Censors
Associated Press | April 14 2006
China's official Internet industry association is calling on its members to help the government suppress material deemed subversive or immoral.
"Unhealthy information" online has harmed Chinese children and threatens social stability, the Internet Society of China said in a statement. The 5-year-old group is the government-sanctioned association for Internet service providers and Chinese Web sites.

"We should run our business in a civilized way," said the statement issued Wednesday and reported by the government's Xinhua News Agency. "We should not produce, disseminate and spread information that harms state security, social stability and information that violates laws and regulations and social morality." The group called for its 2,600 member companies to supervise content, delete "unhealthy" information and oppose acts that undermine "Internet civilization," Xinhua said.
China's communist government encourages Internet use for education and business but tries to block access to sensitive material. The country has the world's second-largest Internet population after the United States with 110 million people online.
The Internet Society statement didn't give any examples of material that members should suppress or say what prompted the appeal.
Chinese online filters have blocked access to foreign sites about Tibet, China's pro-democracy movement, human rights and the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement. The government also launches frequent crackdowns on China-based sites with sexually oriented material.
The release of the society's statement coincided with a visit to Beijing by the chief executive of Google Inc., who defended the search engine's decision to cooperate with government censorship. Activists have criticized Mountain View, Calif.-based Google for blocking access to banned material from its Chinese-language site, Google.cn.
"We believe that the decision that we made to follow the law in China was absolutely the right one," CEO Eric Schmidt said Wednesday at a news conference.

Pisshead,
i want to answer to you but when i scrool down, and see all your sigs I just laugh....its just funny

you roll with.... tell someone where you sit, before you tell them where you stand.

links say it all for you....maybe just have like 1 or 2 leave us guessing....

i don't care what you think...i'll put fifty links down there if i feel like it. i'm sorry you have a problem with it.

nothing to say about the draconian internet censorship of china? thanks for nothing.

I didnt say i had a problem, I said it is funny. Put up 50 links and then you wont have to post you could just hilight your link pertaining to it....good idea............(giving a thumbs down and a fart noise)

you put up more threads then a weaving convention.... how could we answer to them all

china can suck it.....and censorship sucks.