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” Reporters Without Borders ” have told about the Internet-censorship in China

Monday, October 15th, 2007

Human rights movement organization “Reporters Without Borders” in cooperation with the Chinese Group of defenders of human rights has published the exclusive report made Chinese Internet-expert. The author of the report wished to remain anonymous investigated mechanisms of censorship, shadowing and propagation which operate in a cyberspace of the China.

Before the seventeenth national congress of Communist party of China legal experts also have called the government of the country to allow to have to Chineses the rights to freedom of press, self-expression and the information. According to legal experts the system of censorship in the Peoples Republic of China has no equal the world and offends spirit of on-line freedom. ” Reporters without borders ” consider that before the Beijing the Olympic Games it is extremely necessary that the Chinese authorities have stopped to block thousand sites, censoring on-line news and to put in prisons the Internet-active workers.

In the report “China: travel to the center the Internet-censorship” is spoken that the government of China has involved enormous human and financial resources to prevent an on-line freedom of speech. The Chinese news sites and blogs are under the vigilant control of the device both on national, and on local levels.

In the report in detail speaks how the supervising system operates and its main characters among which Administrative committee the Internet-propagation, the Bureau of the information and public opinion, and also the Internet-committee of the China refer to. The author of the report results set of examples of censorship of news sites which carries out the Beijing administrative bureau the Internet-information. In a final part of the document results of a series of the tests showing work of the mechanism of a filtration on keywords are resulted.

To familiarize with the full text of the report ” China: travel to the center the Internet-censorship ” is possible here.