World Net Daily: China to monitor all Net use

April 11, 2003

(Clearwisdom.net) China's communist government announced last week that it is seeking to erect a "national boundary" to restrict access to the Internet, reports intelligence newsletter Geostrategy-Direct.

The official Xinhua news agency stated April 1 the boundary would be an attempt to "exercise cyber monitoring or limiting."

The goal is to "find and sanction vicious Internet-based activities which are harmful to China and its people's interests," according to Hu Mingzeng, director of the Computer Network and System Security Research Center at Harbin Industrial University in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province.

China has an estimated 60 million Internet users, and Chinese authorities periodically conduct crackdowns on Internet cafes and arrest users who access "unauthorized" information, such as information about the banned Falun Gong [...] group or foreign media outlets.

Internet use has become "a seedbed for illegal activities," Xinhua stated.

China has outlawed gambling, pornography, hacking, the "tipoff of state secrets," terrorism and governmental subversion through the Internet.

"China has established a special cyber police force to intensify real-time monitoring, to intercept and delete harmful information and to capture and check illegal server data," Xinhua stated.

Chinese authorities plan to monitor Internet use by surveilling keyboard activity and using other electronic measures.

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