Beijing Tightens Grip on the Internet
December 18, 2009
Info Wars
By Katherin Hille
China has banned individuals from registering internet domain names in Beijing’s toughest move so far to tighten online censorship.
From Monday, people registering a domain name in China would have to present a company seal and a business licence, the China Internet Network Information Center, a government-backed body, said in a statement.
Service providers said they had started to review their clients for potentially fraudulent or “harmful” individually-owned sites.
“We have started to review domain names registered by individuals, as requested by CNNIC,” said an official at HiNet, one of China’s largest internet service providers.
Officials said the measure was part of a campaign to rein in pornographic content, but bloggers and internet activists interpreted it as a broader attempt to enforce internet censorship more heavily. “If they really enforce this, we will have to register our sites outside China,” said one blogger.
The move follows a string of measures to crack down on internet and media content as China shows growing nervousness over user-generated content, which it struggles to control.
Last week, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television closed down a number of video- sharing sites, citing copyright violations and lewd content, while Beijing said that more than 3,000 people had been arrested nationwide for alleged involvement in posting pornographic content online.
This year, the authorities blocked a number of social media including YouTube, Facebook and Twitter and some of their local clones.
Individuals are estimated to account for the majority of global domain names.
According to CNNIC, China had 16.3m domain names as of June this year, 80 per cent of which had the ending “.cn”. The rest used “.org”, “.net” or “.com”.
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Cuban Blogger Seized From Streets, Beaten & Released
November 9, 2009
NBC Miami
By Janie Campbell
Was it something she spelled?
Trail-blazing Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez says she was headed to a peaceable march against violence with friends in Havana Friday when she and fellow writer Orlando Luis Pardo were confronted by three men in plainclothes presumed to be state security, forced into a car, and assaulted.
“No blood,” she reported to El Nuevo Herald. “But black and blues, punches, pulled hairs, blows to the head, kidneys, knee and chest…[after being] thrown head-first inside, they applied judo or karate holds to us and the punches . . . kept raining down.”
Sánchez says she and Pardo were driven around for about 20 minutes before being “violently thrown on the street” near where they were first accosted. Their friends reported being taken to a police station in a second car, where they were questioned and released.
The group was en route to an event its organizers, local musicians, termed “a peaceful performance-march — neither a protest nor a political demand.” A previous gathering had included group theatre but was uneventful.
Since she began signing her name to blog posts she composes in Cuba and e-mails to friends in other countries for publication, Sánchez has received critical acclaim and several awards for her social commentary and missives about every day life on the island from the government to food to baseball. Though awarded Spain’s Ortega y Gasset Journalism Award and Columbia University’s Maria Moors Cabot Prize, she has been denied permission to leave Cuba to accept. In 2008, Sánchez, a philologist by training, was named one of TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People.
Sánchez said the motivation behind the “professional violence” was “evidently” to keep her from participating in the anti-violence march. “Anything else would be pure speculation.”
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