China online ‘Code of Conduct’
p2pnet news | Freedom:- With the August Beijing Olympic Games approaching fast, a code of conduct defining how major ISPs and portal operators should deal with Net censorship in China is being developed by Human Rights Watch and the providers, says the IDG News Service.
“One of our concerns is the degree to which the major international Internet companies have become complicit in this censorship of the Internet,” the story Kenneth Roth, executive director of New York-based Human Rights Watch at a Tokyo news conference.
“Roth said that these companies are often blocking access in anticipation of requests from the government rather than waiting for the requests themselves. They also test the so-called ‘great firewall,’ the Internet filter that governs the complete flow of Internet traffic in and out of China, and block traffic that has been cut off by the firewall.”
Major Net companies, with Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft to the fire, have been singled out for their actions in China, notes IDG.
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IDG News Service – Chinese Internet censorship code of conduct in the works, March 18, 2008
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March 19th, 2008 at 3:50 am
Why does China even allow access to the internet? It’s obvious that the government doesn’t want its people to have access to anything worth looking at. Why don’t they just start a closed computer service, like AOL in its early days and stop offering people 10% internet access?