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30 August 2007
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Beijing police pop up to warn
Cartoon police officers are to appear in "pop-up" warnings on the internet every half hour to warn Chinese users that they must steer clear of unapproved websites.
As the country prepares for its landmark five-yearly Communist Party Congress in October, human rights groups said the authorities are exerting even greater pressure on freedom of speech.
Officials stress that "Jing" and "Cha", its two "internet cops" named after the two characters that make up the Chinese word for "police", are on the look out for criminal activity. "They will be on the watch for websites that incite secession, promote superstition, gambling and fraud," an official told the China Daily newspaper. "Secession" refers to support for an independent Tibet or Taiwan.
A second official said it was important to wipe out information that "disrupts social stability", a catch-all phrase often used to refer to emails, bulletin boards and blogs that challenge the political status quo.
One unusual aspect of Chinese censorship is that as it has become more systematic in recent years, it has also become more open, with less sensitive decisions published and even argued over in newspapers.
The new rules, devised by Beijing city authorities under the devolved system common in China, mean that the two cartoon characters will from Saturday roll up from the bottom of the 13 biggest internet sites every 30 minutes. They will expand their presence to all city internet sites by the end of the year.
As well as being a reminder to users not to break the rules, they also link directly to a website where surfers can report "unhealthy" websites.
The battle between China's internet police and the minority of its tens of millions of bloggers and other users who discuss politics is very much a battle of wits, with more and more surfers using "computer patches" to get round the government's "firewall".
Bloggers even won a battle with the government when it dropped plans for a compulsory registration scheme that would have forced them to identify their real names and turned it into a voluntary code of conduct instead.
Beijing is unrelenting in cases it believes to be a real threat to security. President Hu Jintao has shown himself to be particularly tough on leaks from inside the party apparatus and has not shown concern at adverse world opinion in this area.
Police have forced the internet giant Yahoo on a number of occasions to provide information that has led to the arrest of journalists and dissidents who sent "subversive" emails, especially abroad.
The company is currently being sued in the United States by a free speech campaign group on behalf of the wife of one such dissident, Wang Xiaoning, who was jailed for 10 years for "incitement to subvert state power".
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