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• Ian Buruma: Battling the Information Barbarians

  

  In the Wall Street Journal, Ian Buruma writes about Google vs. China and the history of information control in China:

  Thought control, in terms of imposing an official orthodoxy, is a very old tradition. The official glue that has long been applied to hold Chinese society together is a kind of state dogma, loosely known as Confucianism, which is moral as well as political, stressing obedience to authority. This is what officials like to call Chinese culture.

  One can take a more cynical view, of course, and see culture as a mere fig leaf meant to hide the machinations of political power. The latest Chinese salvo against the U.S., blaming the Americans for instigating rebellion in Iran through the Internet, reveals that the current spat has a hard (and opportunistic) political core. And the assumption that Google, as a Chinese editorial put it, is a “political pawn” of the U.S. government, is a clear case of projection.

  In any case, instilling the belief that obedience to authority is not just a way to keep order, but an essential part of being Chinese, is highly convenient for those who wield authority, whether they be fathers of a family or rulers of the state. That is why in their efforts to promote democracy after World War I, Chinese intellectuals denounced Confucianism, with its rigid social hierarchy, as an outmoded orthodoxy which had to be eradicated.

  For another historical perspective on the Google issue and the fight for Internet freedom, see this essay by Geremie R. Barmé.

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  • January 30, 2010 10:34 AM

• Video: “网瘾战争 War of Internet Addiction” (Updated)

  

  DigiCha has posted links to YouTube videos, now with English subtitles, mocking government efforts to crackdown on gaming (Videos embedded below). DigiCha points out that episode 6 (of 7) has the most obvious discussion of Internet controls. This video has already had more than million visits inside of China. From their introduction:

  It is an hour long video, “shot” almost entirely with in-game video from World of Warcraft, satirizing the government’s attempt to “harmonize” China’s Internet with forced installations of “Green Dam Youth Escort” and the travails of Chinese World of Warcraft players over the last several months.

  …The film tracks the fight between The9 ($NCTY) and Netease ($NTES) over the renewal rights to Activision Blizzard’s ($ATVI) World of Warcraft, the requirement that skulls be removed from World of Warcraft (hence the Skull Party), the bureaucratic battles between GAPP and the Ministry of Culture over the re-approval of WoW in China, the money-obsessed Uncle Yang and his Internet addiction camps and electro-shock therapy (see this forthcoming Feb 2010 Wired article on China’s Internet addiction camps), and the attempts to impose “Green Dam Youth Escort” software on Chinese web users. The movie concludes with an impassioned speech calling for Chinese World of Warcraft players to end their silence and fight the attempts to keep them away from World of Warcraft, followed by an agreement between the warring bureaucracies-GAPP and MOC–to put aside their dispute and go after Netease for more money.

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  • January 26, 2010 4:28 PM

• Sim Chi Yin: Up Against the ‘Great Firewall’

  

  From the The Malaysian Insider, (via Wandering China blog):

  Each time Web portal executive Li (not his real name) receives an e-mail from his political masters telling him to remove certain posts and articles, he curses under his breath – and then immediately carries out the orders.

  Heavy-handed – and tightening – censorship was a key reason cited by international cyber giant Google for possibly quitting China, the world’s largest Internet market.

  But it is a daily reality for the thousands of fresh-faced Chinese who work in China’s “Silicon Valley”, Zhongguancun, in west Beijing.

  Mostly graduates of top local universities, many struggle with the sort of “schizophrenia” Li professes to have – yearning for free flow of information but having to block an ever-growing list of “sensitive” words and content.

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  • January 24, 2010 10:09 AM

• Xie Wen: Page Not Found

  

  Caixin writes about “a mounting crisis for the Internet in China” which is largely due to vested interests in the industry:

  The industry’s revenue structure is marked by strange distribution patterns. Online game industry revenues exceeded 30 billion yuan in 2009. But revenues from online advertising were only 20 billion yuan, and Internet commerce and services income totaled less than 20 billion yuan. So unlike the Internet industry in developed countries, or in any other Chinese business sector, China’s Internet industry revenue structure is freakish, unstable and unsustainable.

  The reason is simple: Areas into which the Internet industry can and should be moving are chock-full of longstanding vested interests, especially those of the state-owned monopoly variety. Internet entrepreneurs trying to gain a foothold in these areas are subject to overt or covert resistance, often under a banner of morality, social values, national stability or public safety. They may be attacked and punished. The heavy handedness, artless technique, shallow reasoning, disrespect of human rights, and brazen acts of interest groups are all reminiscent of another time: It’s as if we’ve returned to the days of the Cultural Revolution.

  But anti-competitive acts violate China’s effort to build an information society and market mechanisms. Some 2009 events as well as ongoing activities have been unprecedented in the decade since China connected to the Internet. Worth noting are the Green Dam debacle, the World of Warcraft incident, Web site blocking, wireless WAP site cut-offs, and putting popular sites such as Facebook and Twitter behind a regulatory firewall.

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  • January 10, 2010 11:34 PM

• China’s Web Crackdown Continues

  

  In the Wall Street Journal, Gordon Crovitz, former publisher of The Wall Street Journal, writes:

  China is doing its best to remind us that technology can also be a tool of suppression, with Beijing recommitting to censoring its large corner of the Internet. Last summer, the authorities required computer makers to install “Green Dam” software on every PC sold in China, which would block troubling political and religious sites. The regulation was put on hold. But last week a Santa Barbara-based company called Cybersitter sued China and several computer makers for $2.2 billion for allegedly stealing code from its parental-control software aimed at blocking pornography.

  The lawsuit—which faces an uphill climb because of difficulties in fighting global copyright violations—says makers of the Green Dam software lifted 3,000 lines of code from Cybersitter (even including some of its customer updates) and incorporated them into the Chinese software. Violations of rights to software in China are usually on display as close as the nearest side street, but it’s telling that the government would go to such lengths.

  Cybersitter alleges there were several thousand attempts from China to hack into its servers, some with thousands of attempts at access per session, including one traced back to a government ministry. Spoofed emails originating in China purported to come from Cybersitter staff and attempted to install Trojan code to lift information from the company’s servers.

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  • January 10, 2010 10:28 PM

• Chinayouren: China and the World Map of the Internet

  

  Last month, Chinayouren posted a series of diagrams illustrating the relationship between China and the World Wide Web, and demonstrating both the barriers that keep China’s Internet separate from the rest of the world and how various forces are bridging the gap:

  Because in Western countries internet penetration is very high and India is still lagging behind, in the next 10 years the Chinese internet will become almost as big as all the rest together. If it continues to diverge, it may grow into a parallel network, like a dark side of the moon, a vast, self-sufficient island that the government can cut out at any moment and most people inside it don’t even notice the difference. This defeats the whole idea of the www.

  Whatever the real magnitude of the problem, it is clear to most observers that there is a disconnect between China and the rest of the Internet, and there are powerful forces pulling her further apart. Fortunately, there are also forces working to balance this, and the results in the coming years will very much depend on how those factors play against each other.

  

  See more graphs here.

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  • January 8, 2010 1:03 PM

• China Says 5,394 Arrested In Internet Porn Crackdown

  

  From Reuters:

  Chinese police arrested thousands in a drive against Internet pornography throughout 2009, officials said, vowing a deepening crackdown that critics say is being used to tighten overall censorship.

  The Chinese government has run a highly publicized campaign against what officials said were banned smutty and lewd pictures overwhelming the country’s Internet and threatening the emotional health of children.

  Chinese police said late on Thursday the crackdown on Internet pornography had brought 5,394 arrests and 4,186 criminal case investigations in 2009 — a fourfold increase in the number of such cases compared with 2008.

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  • December 31, 2009 10:42 PM

• China Is Losing a War Over Internet

  

  Loretta Chao and Jason Dean reports on the Wall Street Journal:

  These appear to be dark days for the Internet in China.

  Four months into a crusade against Internet pornography, the government is closing thousands of sites—some pornographic, some not—and tightening rules on who can register Web addresses inside China.

  A backlash against Beijing’s moves to block access to the Internet has spurred attempts by many users to ’scale’ the so-called Great Firewall of censorship.
  Foreign sites such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, blocked by censors in the run-up to the 60th anniversary of Communist Party rule on Oct. 1, remain inaccessible to most Chinese users. Several prominent critics of the state who used the Internet to spread their message have been detained or imprisoned.

  Yet this list of casualties obscures a larger truth: The censors are losing.

  … That the Internet threatens, fundamentally, the party’s information monopoly is one of the few facts that China’s liberal activists and its government enforcers agree on. In an essay published in December in a government magazine, Minister of Public Security Meng Jianzhu warned that the Internet “has become an important means for anti-China forces to engage in infiltration and sabotage, and to enlarge their power of destruction, which brings new challenges to the public security agencies to maintain national security and social stability.” He pointed to the use of the Internet to spread word of unrest before the government has a chance to control it.

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  • December 31, 2009 12:10 AM

• China To Lift Internet, Phone Bans In Xinjiang: State Media

  

  From AFP:

  China plans to restore online access and lift a ban on text messages and international calls in Xinjiang, state media said Tuesday, months after deadly ethnic unrest prompted a communications shutdown.

  The official Xinhua news agency quoted the regional government as saying it had restored access to part of the wire’s website as well as parts of the website of the state-run People’s Daily newspaper.

  “And according to relevant circumstances, (the government) will gradually restore access to other websites and Internet services, and open up mobile text messages and international long-distance phone services,” the report said.

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  • December 29, 2009 3:24 PM

• China Cracks Down On Online Games: Report

  

  From AFP:

  China has placed more than 4.65 million computers at some 80,000 Internet cafes under watch in a bid to crack down on violent or pornographic online games, state media reported Friday.

  Xinhua quoted Culture Minister Cai Wu as saying in an interview that his ministry had banned 219 Internet games for carrying “lewd, pornographic and violent” content and had blocked access to games 87 million times this year.

  Cai’s ministry plans to step up regulation of the fast-expanding online game sector and “would improve censorship of the games in the future,” Xinhua reported.

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  • December 25, 2009 5:16 PM

• Micro-blogs In China: Tweeting Through The ‘Great Firewall’

  

  From CNN:

  A handful of homegrown micro-blogging sites emerged about the same time Twitter started to gain a small, yet steadily growing, share of Chinese Internet users, beginning about 2007, around a year after Twitter was launched in the U.S. in 2006.

  While almost all of the early Chinese micro-blogging pioneers faced the same fate as Twitter, most of the sites are now back online and are fiercely competing to gain a share of what many predict will soon be an exploding population of Chinese micro-bloggers.

  Alex Mou is the founder of one of them. He started a Twitter-like site called Zuosa, which was shut down for “self maintenance” on July 21, around two months after Twitter was first blocked in early June.

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  • December 24, 2009 10:10 PM

• China To Require Internet Domain Name Registration (Updated)

  

  From Reuters:

  China has issued new Internet regulations, including what appears to be an effort to create a “whitelist” of approved websites that could potentially place much of the Internet off-limits to Chinese readers.

  The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology ordered domain management institutions and internet service providers to tighten control over domain name registration, in a three-phase plan laid out on its website (www.miit.gov.cn) late on Sunday.

  “Domain names that have not registered will not be resolved or transferred,” MIIT said, in an action plan to “further deepen” an ongoing anti-pornography campaign that has resulted in significant tightening of Chinese Internet controls.

  2009 has marked a time of media tightening. Read also about the fate of the TV show ‘Snail House’ on CDT.

  Update: See Danwei’s translation of MIIT’s five measures, “MIIT considers a white-list of approved websites.” The Wall Street Journal’s Real Time China Blog, however, notes that there may be no such white-list under consideration:

  However, there’s nothing in the MIIT document that actually discusses such a white-list system. The line that has drawn attention is the third clause in item No. 6 of the Phase II section of the document, which says “Domain names of Web sites that haven’t yet been registered won’t be resolved.” But there’s no indication that this applies to foreign Web sites. Rather, the clause appears to be part of the broader tightening of the vetting process for Chinese domain names—an initiative that first surfaced last week.

  Applicants for Chinese “.cn” domain names have always had to register. Last week’s rules basically said that applications will be more closely scrutinized and applicants must prove they are affiliated with a company or other officially registered organization – making it much more difficult for individuals to set up “.cn” sites.

  Shen Yang, chief editor of the book “The Economics of China’s Domain Names”, who has discussed the new document in meetings with MIIT officials, says media reports about a white list and registration of overseas Web sites are inaccurate. “It’s totally a rumor,” he says.

  Some analysts had speculated last week that the tighter vetting of “.cn” domain applications would simply drive more Chinese Web site proprietors to register their sites overseas. And indeed, one Chinese newspaper reported Tuesday that Chinese registrations of “.com” addresses have spiked since last week. It may have been anticipation of government efforts to close that loophole that fueled the speculation about a white list.

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  • December 23, 2009 6:21 PM

• China’s Domain-Name Limits: Web Censorship?

  

  From Time:

  The year 2009 will not be remembered as the year Chinese censors decided to lighten up. This week, the Chinese agency that oversees the country’s Internet-domain-name registry announced it will limit the system to use by businesses, effectively excluding private citizens from registering new domains. The new rules, which the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) put into place on Dec. 14, are meant to restrict online pornography. But some new-media experts say they may add another tool to the country’s array of Internet controls. “Many believe that the crackdown on porn was just an excuse,” says Isaac Mao, a Chinese blogger and a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. “The real reason has to do with the various goals of Internet censorship, one of which is to curb the individual’s voice.”

  Web censorship in China is rarely an all-or-nothing endeavor. When a site begins to carry too many materials or too much commentary that the authorities find objectionable, it will get blocked if based overseas, or highly restricted or possibly closed if it’s based in China. Web users move on to new haunts or find new routes to old ones. But by plugging enough holes and muffling enough dissenting voices, China’s Communist Party curbs online opposition to its rule while still allowing the Internet to be open enough to not dangerously impede commerce.

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  • December 19, 2009 7:22 PM

• Peng Bo (彭波): “The Main Problems Relating to Internet News Propaganda”

  

  In China, several political bodies are in charge of Internet content control. At the highest level, there is the Central Propaganda Department, which ensures that media and cultural content follows the official line as mandated by the CCP. Then there is the State Council Information Office (SCIO), which has established “Internet Affairs Bureau” to oversee all Websites that publish news, including the official sites of news organizations as well as independent sites that post news content.

  Recently, the ninth session of the 2009 SCIO Internet News Work Training Session just finished in Beijing. All participants are top editors and managers of major news websites in China. The trainers include:

  * Li Wufeng, Bureau Chief of the State Council Information Office Internet Affairs Bureau
  * Peng Bo, Deputy Chief of the State Council Information Office Internet Affairs Bureau
  * Professor Zhu Feng, Peking University School of International Relations
  * Song Fufan, Director of the Ideology and Political Education Teaching and Research Section of the Marxist Theory Research Department at the Central Party School of the Communist Party of China
  * Zhai Huisheng, Party Secretary of the All China Federation of Working Journalists
  * Professor Gao Gang, Secretary of the Party Committee of Renmin University School of Journalism and Communication
  * Xia Chenghua, Deputy Chief of the Central Government Stability Preservation Leading Group Office
  * Zhou Xisheng, Deputy Chief of Xinhua News Agency, Director-General of Xinhua News Agency

  Soon after the training finished, one of the participants released her notes from this session online. CDT has translated the entire collection of notes from this 2009 SCIO Internet News Work training session; in total there are eight articles, which we will publish consecutively in coming days. CDT would like to thank the translator, who wishes to remain anonymous. The first translated installment of notes is here, and this is the second:

  Peng Bo, Deputy Chief of the State Council Information Office Internet Affairs Bureau

  1, Commercial websites must understand that it is the government that protects the development of domestic websites. If the Chinese internet didn’t have Sina, then Yahoo would have free rein; if there were no Baidu, then Google would have free rein; if there were no QQ, then MSN would have free rein. All of this is because the government is intentionally fostering domestic enterprises.

  2, Key news websites and commercial websites should unify their thinking, they should learn to think politically.

  Criticize Sina for not thinking politically; when reporting on Obama’s visit to China, they played without authorization a video of Obama speaking in Shanghai.

  The most important part of Obama’s visit to China was his speech in Shanghai. The format of this speech was different than the speech format used by past U.S. presidents when visiting China. It was specially designed by the U.S. government to enlarge Obama’s personal influence.

  Before Obama visited China, America and China negotiated that websites and television stations would broadcast the event. China accepted their request; however, live television coverage was to be limited to Shanghai area television stations.

  These measures were implemented to accord with the Party’s Central Committee’s desire that people become enthused about China-U.S. relations rather than be enthused about Obama.

  Providing a video of Obama’s speech without authorization was done for Sina’s commercial interest and was not done for the nation’s interest. In order to gain a little, a lot was lost.

  Criticize Netease for going after sensational stories and not doing a good job of directing public opinion. [Netease's] international news headlines are always things like “New York Mayor Bloomberg Receives Annual Salary of $1”, “Black American Becomes Mayor”, “American Youth Becomes Mayor”. These headlines are sensationalist and cast aspersions [on the Chinese government]. [Netease] has set the wrong direction for public opinion and has not properly fulfilled its role as a guide [of public opinion].

  3, Each web organization gets a perfect score for their reporting of the 60th Anniversary National Day celebrations. Liu Yunshan [head of the Central Propaganda Department] has given his comment as evaluation: “it cannot be done better.” This is a classic example of the Internet positively guiding public opinion. I praise everyone’s work and express thanks to each website.

  4, As for my expectations and hopes for everyone: magnify positive news stories; to the extent possible don’t report negative news stories. The Internet media should not be influenced by the Western media which thinks bad news is good news.

  4.[sic] I’d like to recommend a few books to everybody, and hope that all Internet news editors can take a look at them.

  * Samuel Huntington, Political Order in Changing Societies
  * Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd
  * Zhao Tingyang, Philosophy of the World Order

  5, Conclusion: China’s Internet media is only ten years old. It is understandable that some mistakes will be made; however, I hope that everyone can soon become more seasoned in their work.

  一、商业网站要明白是政府在保护国内网站的发展。中国的互联网没有新浪，就是雅虎的天下；没有百度，就是谷歌的天下；没有QQ，就是MSN的天下。而这都是政府在有意扶植民族企业。
  　　二、重点新闻网站和商业网站要统一思想，要学会讲政治。

  　1、批评新浪不讲政治，在报道奥巴马访华的新闻时，擅自放奥巴马在上海演讲的视频。

  　　奥巴马访华最重要的部分就是上海演讲，这次的演讲形式不同于以往的美国总统访华的演讲，是美国政府刻意设计的，为了扩大奥巴马的个人影响。

  　　奥巴马访华之前，美方和中方交涉要求网站和电视进行转播，中方同意了他们的要求，但是电视直播只在上海地方电视台进行。

  　　这些措施是为了符合中央的要求，即要形成中美关系热，而不是奥巴马热。

  　　新浪擅自在提供奥巴马演讲视频，是为了自己的商业利益，不是为了国家利益，因小失大，得不偿失。

  　　2、批评网易热衷猎奇不做好的舆论引导。国际新闻头条总是放”纽约市长布隆伯格年薪1美元”、”美国黑人当市长”、”美国少年当市长”这样的大惊小怪而又有所影射的标题。舆论导向错误，没有起到正确的引导作用。

  　　三、国庆60周年的报道，各网都可以获得一百分。刘云山评价：达到了极致。这是互联网正面引导舆论的典型成绩。表扬大家的表现，并向各网站表示感谢。
  　　四、对大家的要求和希望：放大正面新闻，尽可能不报道负面新闻。互联网媒体不能受西方媒体的影响，以为坏消息就是好新闻。
  　　四、推荐给大家的几本书，希望所有的网络新闻编辑都看一下。
  　　1、亨廷顿《变化社会中的政治秩序》
  　　2、勒庞《乌合之众》
  　　3、赵汀阳《世界制度哲学导论》
  　　五、总结：中国网络媒体才10岁，犯错误也是可以理解的，但是希望大家早点成熟起来。

  [To be continued]

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  • December 17, 2009 8:54 AM

• Li Wufeng (李伍峰): “Safeguarding the Orderly Dissemination of Online News”

  

  In China, several political bodies are in charge of Internet content control. At the highest level, there is the Central Propaganda Department, which ensures that media and cultural content follows the official line as mandated by the CCP. Then there is the State Council Information Office (SCIO), which has established “Internet Affairs Bureau” to oversee all Websites that publish news, including the official sites of news organizations as well as independent sites that post news content.

  In July 5, 2006, the director of the State Council Information Office (SCIO) publicly told the Chinese media that in order to strengthen the monitoring and control of Internet content, one of the necessary measures is to invest in capacity-building through training programs for editors and managers of all the major websites. These training programs had been systematized even before the SCIO’s announcement. Many of these training programs were carried out by News and Communication Schools in Chinese universities; some of them are organized through various official media themselves, but the highest level training program has been one organized by the State Council Information Office itself. In 2005, SCIO organized 10 such training sessions, and this system has continued over the last four years.

  Recently, the ninth session of the 2009 SCIO Internet News Work Training Session just finished in Beijing. All participants are top editors and managers of major news websites in China. Trainers are:

  * Li Wufeng, Bureau Chief of the State Council Information Office Internet Affairs Bureau
  * Peng Bo, Deputy Chief of the State Council Information Office Internet Affairs Bureau
  * Professor Zhu Feng, Peking University School of International Relations
  * Song Fufan, Director of the Ideology and Political Education Teaching and Research Section of the Marxist Theory Research Department at the Central Party School of the Communist Party of China
  * Zhai Huisheng, Party Secretary of the All China Federation of Working Journalists
  * Professor Gao Gang, Secretary of the Party Committee of Renmin University School of Journalism and Communication
  * Xia Chenghua, Deputy Chief of the Central Government Stability Preservation Leading Group Office
  * Zhou Xisheng, Deputy Chief of Xinhua News Agency, Director-General of Xinhua News Agency

  Soon after the training finished, one of the participants released her notes from this session online, and they have been quickly circulating through Chinese cyberspace. The Internet police has been rapidly deleting copies of the notes and netizens’ comments on them.

  CDT has translated the entire collection of notes from this 2009 SCIO Internet News Work training session; in total there are eight articles, which we will publish consecutively in coming days. CDT would like to thank the translator, who wishes to remain anonymous. Here is the first article:

  Opening Lecture

  Li Wufeng, Bureau Chief of the State Council Information Office Internet Affairs Bureau

  Main points of the lecture:

  1, Without media hype there will not be popular internet expressions; if the news is reported in an orderly way, then online public opinion will be harmonious and orderly. It is extremely important to safeguard the orderly dissemination of online news.

  2. Currently, the online republishing of news stories has the following major problems:

  2.1 Republishing articles from small papers and publications, even republishing articles from the foreign press.

  2.2 The online news phenomenon of “news laundering”* is still serious. Sometimes standard news sources do not even carry the story [that the republishing source claimed the standard news source published].

  2.3 Intentionally posting unpermitted content on interactive interfaces (forums, blogs).

  2.4 Small newspapers and websites republish each others’ stories, creating media hype. For example, the Deng Yujiao incident** and the Hangzhou street race case***.

  3, The issues created by these problems are extremely serious. The following are some of the major problems caused:

  3.1 Little incidents are hyped into big issues.

  3.2 It breeds a base and vulgar culture.

  3.3 It seriously influences the direction of public opinion.

  4, In response to the above issues, the next step is to vigorously take measures to protect the orderly republication of news stories.

  4.1 Improve training, protect the orderly dissemination of online information.

  4.2 Each website must improve its internal mechanisms; it is the station of a news editor to be responsible.

  4.3 The agencies in charge of supervision must improve their monitoring and inspection.

  4.4 Move forward in perfecting a republication system; clearly establish the source of republished articles.

  In addition: a list (version three) of news media organizations from which articles can be copied is currently being organized and discussed. It will be made available as soon as possible.

  * “News laundering” (xi gao) is a term coined to describe a situation in which a news organization is unable or unauthorized to be the first to publish a certain item of news, and consequently finds another news organization to first post the news. When the news has been posted by the second news organization, the first news organization will republish the news citing the second news organization.

  ** The Deng Yujiao incident refers to a case in which a young woman claimed that she stabbed a Party official in self defense after he solicited sex. The internet was critical in rallying public support that likely led to her acquittal. Read more from CDT.

  *** The Hangzhou street race case refers to a case in which a wealthy young man, Hu Bin, struck and killed another young man, Tan Zhuo as Hu was speeding in Hangzhou. Hu Bin was later convicted, after the case aroused a great deal of online discussion about the role of wealth in judicial proceedings.

  2009-12-9《开班式讲话》
  　　国新办网络局局长李伍峰
  　　发言要点：
  　一、没有新闻的炒作，则不会有网络流行语；新闻报道有序，则网上舆论和谐有序。维护好网上新闻传播秩序十分重要。
  　　二、当前网络新闻转载主要存在以下问题：
  　　1、转载小报小刊的文章，甚至是境外媒体的。
  　　2、新闻网站“洗稿”现象严重，某些新闻标准的新闻来源并没有该新闻。
  　　3、有意在互动栏目（论坛、博客）贴发违规内容。
  　　4、小报和网站相互转载炒作事件。如邓玉娇事件，杭州飙车案。
  　　三、而这些问题造成的影响也极其严重，主要有以下几点：
  　　1、把小事情炒作得很大。
  　　2、助长恶俗文化和恶搞文化。
  　　3、舆论导向会受到严重影响。
  　　四、针对以上情况，下一步要积极采取措施，维护网上转载秩序。
  　　1、加强培训，维护网上信息传播秩序。
  　　2、各网站要加强自我建设，新闻编辑上岗必须责任制。
  　　3、监管机构要加强巡查检查。
  　　4、进一步完善转载制度，明确转载稿源。
  　　另：可供装载的新闻媒体名单（第三批）正在组织讨论制订，将会尽快公布下发。

  [To be continued]

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