China to continue with Internet policing

Mobile Internet, The, March, 2005

The Chinese government plans to toughen the censorship laws that are currently applicable on the Internet in China. According to the news agency Xinhua, the relevant authorities will monitor Internet chat rooms and Chinese portals around the clock. All the messages that are submitted will be scanned before they are allowed to appear on the Internet. China, being a communist nation, wants to control the kind of information that the people will have access to through the Internet.

As part of the control initiative, about 12,000 Internet bars were closed in 2004. The number of Internet users in China is expected to increase to 120 million by the end of 2005. The United States and China are the top two cyber markets worldwide.

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