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China: government's new campaign to "cleanse" the internet

Xeni Jardin

A state-run news network in China reported Monday that China’s President Hu Jintao has launched a campaign to cleanse the nation’s booming internet of “unhealthy” content, and make it a more effective platform for Communist Party doctrine. Link.

Previously on BB:

  • Bill Gates and Free Software heckler in China
  • Google, China, and genocide: web censorship and Tibet
  • Yahoo aided China in torture, says dissident in lawsuit papers
  • China dissident’s wife: “Yahoo betrayed my husband.”
  • Jailed Chinese dissident’s wife to sue Yahoo for ratting out her husband
  • Yahoo rats out Chinese reporter to Beijing, writer gets 10 years in jail
  • China: gov to expand “Great ‘Net Firewall,” censor web even more
  • Report: Yahoo helped jail another Chinese ‘net dissident, Li Zhi
  • Journalism school won’t return Yahoo’s controversial $1M grant
  • Report: Yahoo implicated in 3rd China dissident case
  • Yahoo could stay in China and stop sending its users to jail
  • Harsh words for US tech firms from House at China ‘net hearings
  • Report: verdict confirms Yahoo helped jail China dissident #2
  • Xeni’s LAT op-ed: war, blogs, news, and profit.
  • Amnesty Int’l. confronts Yahoo over jailed Chinese reporter
  • NPR “Xeni Tech”: Yahoo may have aided in jailing of second China writer
  • Tech firms blasted over China policies on Capitol Hill
  • HK lawmaker: Yahoo unit had role in Shi Tao’s jailing
  • Chinese activist to Jerry Yang: You are helping to maintain an evil system
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