Press release RSF 28 May 2007 Reporters Without Borders takes note of a bill posted, on 22 May, on the website of the Internet Society of China, an offshoot of the information industries ministry, under which blog services will be encouraged but not forced to adopt a system for registering bloggers by their real names. Under an initial draft, it would have been mandatory for bloggers to register under their real names. The ISC said it was posting the bill in order to canvass the public's views. "Self-discipline is now being extended to blogging although it has already had disastrous effects on the quality of news and information available online in China," Reporters Without Borders said. "We will continue to defended full freedom for bloggers." President Hu Jintao and the Communist Party political bureau met on 23 April to discuss how to improve control over the Internet, saying they wanted to "purify" it. The rapid growth in Internet use in China is worrying the authorities and they have been trying to regulate it by all means possible. China is still on the Reporters Without Borders list of the world’s 13 Internet enemies. Of the 68 cyber-dissidents currently imprisoned worldwide, 50 are in China. ================== HURIDOCS-Tech listserv ===================== Send mail intended for the list to < >. Archives of the list can be found at: http://www.hrea.org/lists/huridocs-tech/markup/maillist.php
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