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To: Fred Levine who wrote (45182)	4/6/2001 3:46:45 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

OT Mickey Mouse et al are allowed in China as long as they are in lock step with the practices of an amoral regime. The mere fact of their presence does not indicate in any way that China is moving forward in terms of human rights. On another note, I always hear people say how the internet age will change China in and of itself. The current regime is not about to be changed in thought anytime soon. BTW, registration with the government is mandated for anyone logging onto the internet. China Deploys Internet Police by Steven Schwankert Managing Editor, asia.internet.com [August 8, 2000--HONG KONG] Special police to patrol the Internet are necessary to ensure online security, a Chinese newspaper reported Tuesday via Sina.com. While the Internet population in China is doubling approximately every six months, accompanied by explosive growth in online commerce and banking, online security has lagged behind, Beijing Morning News reported. A new Public Security Bureau (PSB) unit in the Anhui provincial capital of Hefei, the China Internet Police, has been designated as the national center for Internet crime control. Altogether, 20 provincial, municipal and autonomous regional units for Internet policing are being established, the report said. The Anhui unit will cooperate with banks to prevent electronic fraud, and work with media outlets to announce new computer viruses and prevent their spread, the report said. The China Internet Police unit is also working in tandem with the Chinese Academy of Sciences to find ways to prevent pornographic and violent material from reaching children, "to create a pleasant Internet environment for young people," the report said. In July, China's Internet population was estimated at 16.9 million users by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), a government-supported Internet monitoring body. Wire service and newspaper reports earlier this week indicated the establishment of the police units to stamp out Internet-related crime. Tuesday's article appears to be the first public acknowledgement of the unit's existence in print media. Computer crime units of the PSB have existed since at least 1998, and are thought to have been involved with the 1998 arrest of Shanghai software engineer Lin Hai. Lin was convicted on charges of subversion for passing 30,000 e-mail addresses to the online pro-democracy publication Big Reference (Da Cankao). One such unit in Guangzhou has been known to exist since 1999. The new unit seems to have sprung into action already. The Associated Press is reporting Tuesday that police are searching for the founders of a dissident Chinese Web site shut down last week. The placement of a national center for Internet police in Anhui province seems a strange choice. Anhui is one of China's poorest province and sports a low rate of Internet usage. Beijing and Shanghai lead the nation in Internet users. Tuesday's Beijing Morning Post article made no mention of the potential for political criminals to be arrested or prosecuted as a result of online activities. In June, police in Chengdu arrested dissident Huang Qi for operating a pro-democracy site that commemorated the June 4, 1989 military crackdown against student protests in Beijing. Last month a Chinese newspaper carried a report stating that not only producers but consumers of online pornography in China were criminally liable.