China's censorship forced to be detained and intensified due to "spreading rumors on the Internet" on charges

ByKai Hendry

China has censored various Internet censors, including "Kin Shield", a system that censors and regulates access to unfavorable information for the government. Currently, the Chinese government announced that it is beginning to detain some users as "spread fake rumors on the Internet."

China detains Internet users for spreading rumors

Chinese government re-strengthening the Internet information regulation - with a new tool such as twitter 2011/10/27 (Thur) 15: 44: 31 [Searchina]

"NETWORK WORLD"According to the allegation that the criminal killed the staff on the grounds that pollution has occurred from the cement factory, the Chinese government suspected that eight officials in the province were murdered in Yunnan province, Detained. He also said that one man was detained for 15 days on the grounds that he forged incorrect state documents on income tax provisions and sent erroneous information on the Internet.

The censorship on the Internet is still being strengthened, and at the general meeting of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, "There is a bit of progress in promoting reform of cultural system in the center of the CPC and promoting great prosperity of socialist culture great development The decision concerning the serious problem of the "was adopted, the full text of which was released on 26th. Twitter has already been subject to censorship in China, but also in Japan with an emerging mini blog"Weibo (Miho Niiro)"It seems that studies are under way to be subject to censorship as well.

In 2011, due to the influence of anti-government demonstrations in Egypt in January, the movement on China's Internet regulation is accelerating. The main movements concerning the Internet regulation of China in 2011 are as follows.

◆Responding to Egyptian anti-government demonstrations
On January 25, an anti-government demonstration calling for the resignation of President Mubarak in Egypt broke out. In response to this, the Chinese government was concerned that the voice calling for domestic reform might be ignited, two characters of Chinese "dust" meaning Egypt were censored at major portal sites "Shinnan" and "Sohu" It was reported by the Taiwanese media that the information was covered by the Taiwanese media.

◆Criticism by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
On February 15, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a speech in Washington city that a country that is strengthening regulations on the Internet, such as China, Syria, Iran, We will face a dilemma, "he criticized.

Secretary of State Clinton said, "Fighting against oppression against" Freedom of the Internet "is a struggle for human rights", and in response to the net regulation by the Chinese government, "to the disability of growth and development I will point out. "

◆Response to the holding of the Chinese version "Jasmine Revolution" meeting
Tunisian"Jasmine Revolution"And the Egyptian anti - government demonstration, on February 20 and 27, movement to call the Chinese version "Jasmine Revolution" on Twitter and so on happened. This is the state of the demonstration on February 20 reported by the Asahi Shimbun.


Around the timing of this first call, sites that can not be accessed from China have soared rapidly. A twisted tweet can not be searched in real time, and when searching for a character string including "revolution", there was a problem such that Google itself could not be accessed for a while.


◆Release of national search engine
Similar to the above-mentioned regulation enhancement and aircraft, on February 22, Xinhua News Agency of China, a state-owned search engine"Panguso (an ancient board search)"When"Xinhuanet (Xinhua)"Started the service.

US media "Wall Street Journal" points out that "Panguso is making more stringent restrictions than other search engines." As an example, if you search for the name of Mr. Liu Xiaobo, a democratic activist, China's leading search engine"Baidu (Baidu)"So links to Chinese comments that criticize him are displayed in search results, whereas Panguso notes that no information is displayed.


◆ Developers of "Kim Shield", can crush shoes during lecture
On 19th May, the president of Beijing Post and Telecommunications University, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, a developer of the Internet censorship system in China, who was able to throw cracks from students when participating in the academic exchange meeting at Wuhan University Occurrence. This thing spread quickly on the Chinese net, a voice of praise gathered for students who threw shoes.

The movie below is the report of "Shin Tang TV" on this incident.

China "father of net censorship" shoes thrown - YouTube


◆Regulation on Mr. Jiang Zemin's death report
On 6th July, overseas media reported that President Jiang Zemin, who was absent from the celebration ceremony of the 90th anniversary of the Communist Party of China, died, the death theory quickly expanded on the Chinese net.

In response to such movements, word searching such as "Jiang" "Jiang Zemin" "Myocardial infarction" "General Secretary", and "301 hospital" as hospitalization became unavailable. At this time, users of the Internet said they opposed it by using river (river) meaning "river" as a secret word.

◆Wenzhou high-speed rail accident
On July 23, a high-speed railroad in Wenzhou city, Zhejiang provoked a derailment accident and issued many dead people. Accident treatment which is seen as a concealment (burden) that suddenly buried accident vehicles was carried out without investigating the cause sufficiently, accident cause which was announced was also changed twice and criticized from all over the world.

The authorities were unable to suppress the Internet users accusing the government of the publicly openly, and one week after the accident, news regulations were issued to newspapers. Many reporters protested against this,"Weibo (Miho Niiro)"We are in the act of revealing the contents of the regulation etc.

【China Shinkansen】 Chinese version Shinkansen accident post-processing image. - YouTube.flv - YouTube


◆Collaborate research with the UK and net regulation as a result of the London riot
At the end of September, the August riot that occurred in many cities in the UK, including London, was exchanging information with SNS and Twitter, and he said, "We must think about how to prevent abuse of SNS" as a net We made collaborative research for strengthening regulations.

There is no report that the UK has started collaborative research since then, and the chances of responding to the call are considered low.

There is no doubt that the regulation of the Chinese authorities is increasingly intense, but Chinese Internet users and some reporters of the press have resisted this by various means and can not be suppressed at the time of a high-speed rail accident It is about the momentum.

Is it possible to contain the power of the Chinese people by keeping tightening like this? It can be said that it is the brink of whether users of Internet users, which is said to be 500 million, will increase their voice and will have greater influence over Chinese society and the government.