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Reuters News Wire (reuters@telecom-digest.org) Tue, 14 Feb 2006 23:00:35 -0600
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Chinese people can freely access the Internet and the government has never arrested anyone for expressing an opinion on the Web, an official state newspaper said on Wednesday. Chinese regulations were also in line with international practices and no different from rules in other countries like the United States which seek to block sites with harmful content, the China Daily said, quoting a senior Internet watchdog official.
"No one in China has been arrested simply because he or she said
Several U.S. tech companies that operate in China have faced criticism
Microsoft Corp. pulled the Web log, or blog, of a critic of the
Liu defended China's record.
"After studying Internet legislation in the West, I've found we
"Companies, including Internet firms, that provide services in China
Liu said China blocked only "a very few" foreign sites which have
Google Inc.'s Chinese search engine, for example, blocks many terms
China encouraged people to report Web sites that contain "harmful
The government had imposed "lenient" penalties on sites that carry
The U.S. State Department said on Tuesday it had set up a task force
But some U.S. sites, like those of Yahoo, also imposed controls on
"It is unfair and smacks of double standards when (they) criticize
Copyright 2006 Reuters Limited.
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