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China Pushes For Blog Standards
June 30, 2006 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- China launched a campaign in February to "purify the environment" of the Internet and mobile communications, as the government continues to research monitoring technology and issue "admittance standards" for blogs, reports Chinese news agency Xinhua.
The government said on Friday it is heightening restrictions on blogs and search engines to block material deemed dissident or immoral, amid a recent media crackdown by President Hu Jintao's government, where numerous Web sites are being shut down and journalists jailed.
While China encourages Internet use for business and education, it has made attempts to block access to any material it considers obscene or politically dangerous. China boasts the world's second-biggest Internet user population after the United States, with 111 million people online. The government will step up research on monitoring technology and issue "admittance standards" for blogs, the report said, without giving details.
According to a Beijing's Tsinghua University study cited by Xinhua, China has 37 million blogs, with that number expected to nearly double this year to 60 million. The government tries to block Internet users from foreign Web sites of human rights groups and political activists, but many have found ways around these controls. Meanwhile, authorities have launched repeated crackdowns on Web sites of a sexual nature, shutting down hundreds of sites and arresting numerous people.
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