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 China Cracks Down 
 on Internet Cafes 

Users must be photographed for national database of Web surfers

Times (UK) Times (UK) Oct 17, 08 6:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - China has resumed a strict crackdown on Internet users less than two months after the Olympic Games, ending the more relaxed regulations that accompanied the international spotlight, reports the Times of London. All visitors to Internet cafes in Beijing will be required to have their photograph taken, reports the Times of London. All photos and identity cards will be scanned into a database maintained by China's Cultural Law Enforcement Task Force. More »

More about:  China • Internet • 2008 Beijing Olympics • Beijing • Internet censorship • Great Firewall of China • Internet cafes

GLOSSIES

China's Great, Baffling Failure: Public Relations

Beijing completely misses 'crass value of cultivating the press'

Atlantic Monthly Atlantic Monthly Oct 16, 08 5:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - It’s no secret that China is moving into position as a global superpower, writes James Fallows in the Atlantic , and this only further highlights its leaders’ baffling inability to understand how the country is viewed from the outside—and how to change those opinions for the better. Officials just don’t understand “the crass value of cultivating the press,” he writes. More »

More about:  China • 2008 Beijing Olympics • censorship • free speech • Hu Jintao • Internet censorship • Chinese Communist party • Great Firewall of China

 China Lowers Internet Firewall

Beijing allows access to certain sites to appease Olympics

Time Time Aug 1, 08 8:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - Facing pressure from the Olympics, Beijing lowered its so-called Great Firewall today to allow access to some news and human rights websites, Time reports. But other sites—like those supporting Tibetan independence or the outlawed spiritual group Falun Gong—remain off-limits in China. And "everyone knows that the minute the circus is over, the walls will be put straight up again," one Chinese scholar said. More »

More about:  China • Internet • 2008 Beijing Olympics • Great Firewall of China • reporter conflict

OPINION

China Wikipedia Access Not So Impressive

Recent move isn't enough to meet IOC's request for openness

Ars Technica Ars Technica Apr 7, 08 1:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - It's good for Chinese Internet users that the government has lifted bans on Wikipedia and Blogspot, but the move isn't the great breakthrough it may seem to be. If the policy change was intended to fulfill requests from the International Olympic Committee for an open internet, it falls well short of any actual freedom of information, writes Jacqui Cheng for Ars Technica. More »

More about:  China • 2008 Beijing Olympics • Tibet • Wikipedia • International Olympic Committee • Internet censorship • Great Firewall of China

Chinese Get No Independent News on Tibet

Official story of foreign-incited riots is playing well at home

Christian Science Monitor Christian Science Monitor Apr 2, 08 1:46 PM CDT
(Newser) - China's media outlets have been getting their information about the recent unrest in Tibet solely from the state-controlled news agency, Xinhua. As a result, most Chinese citizens are buying the government's handling of what has been portrayed as mob violence plotted from abroad—when it's been covered at all, the Christian Science Monitor reports. More »

More about:  China • Tibet • censorship • media coverage • Xinhua • Great Firewall of China

EU May Name Censorship a Trade Barrier

Measure takes aim at the 'Great Firewall
of China'; would inject web into trade talks

Ars Technica Ars Technica Feb 28, 08 2:33 PM CST
(Newser) - The EU is out to hack down the Great Firewall of China, Ars Technica reports. A new proposal would classify the web censorship China and other oppressive regimes employ as a trade barrier, an approach its creator calls “unusual, but effective.” The measure already sailed through the European Parliament 571-38, and now awaits European Council confirmation. More »

More about:  China • European Union • censorship • trade • web traffic • Internet censorship • Great Firewall of China • European Parliament • web censorship

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