{"id":46888,"date":"2015-04-29T21:33:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T21:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=46888 "},"modified":"2015-04-29T21:33:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T21:33:00","slug":"46888-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=46888","title":{"rendered":"China\\’s New Internet Rules Raise Questions Over Role of Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Netizens at an Internet cafe in China’s Zhejiang province, Nov. 2, 2012.<\/div><\/div>
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Tough new regulations requiring online publishers to attend “chats” with officials and police if they post content deemed false or inappropriate have raised questions about the increasingly strong-armed role of China’s Internet regulator.<\/div>
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China’s Cyberspace Administration on Tuesday issued the rules, which set out a serious of violations of rules on web content that could prompt a summons to “drink tea,” a technique traditionally employed by the state security police to warn, interrogate, and intimidate rights activists and dissidents.<\/div>
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Sites deemed to have published banned content—which might include “false information, pornography, and rumors”—will be obliged to send a representative to such meetings from June 1, the official Xinhua news agency reported.<\/div>
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On Sept. 1, 2013, China’s highest judicial authorities issued a directive criminalizing online “rumor-mongering” in a move widely seen as targeting critical comments and negative news on the country’s hugely popular social media sites.<\/div>
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Until this year, the authorities have mostly targeted individuals under the new rules. But the Cyberspace Administration summoned high-ranking executives from Internet giants Sina and Netease for “tea” in February and April, “to urge them to correct their violations,” Xinhua said.<\/div>
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“There is a high possibility that those websites spreading rumors and pornography, leaking user information, and permitting users to set up illegal account names, will be invited for a chat,” official media quoted Cyberspace Administration official Fan Li as saying.<\/div>
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“If problems are not rectified after they have been summoned several times, [Internet portals] will be given heavier punishment,” Fan warned.<\/div>
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According to Fan, the new system will strengthen “guidance and correction of errors,” rather than relying on a simple punishment system alone.<\/div>
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Sites that violate guidelines on content, whether by editing, posting, re-posting,or deleting news copy, including news organizations that either publish or do not publish certain items in return for cash, can expect a summons under the new regime.<\/div>
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According to the English-language China Daily newspaper, “‘Providing tea’ is a mild way of saying that cyber administrations at all levels will arrange meetings with Internet companies that have seriously violated the law and regulations, issue a warning and urge the adjustment of content.”<\/div>
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Government-initiated “chats” will become a regular management tool in managing Internet news service providers, who will be required to take action on the basis of what is said in them, the paper said.<\/div>
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Online content providers cannot decline the “invitation,” it said, adding that at least two clearly identified law enforcement officers would be required to attend each session and make a record of the “chat.”<\/div>
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