March 12, 2004
“A 46-year-old professor and lawmaker at China’s annual session of parliament has taken the unusually bold step of setting up his own Web site as a forum for discussing social problems.
The existence of Zhou Hongyu’s site, www.hongyu-online.com , signalled that Beijing had quietly broadened limits on what can be discussed on the Internet, as long as topics did not threaten Communist Party rule, analysts said.
‘We now live in an Internet society . . . An Internet society allows people to freely and truthfully express their thoughts because it is anonymous. Citizens can make many recommendations,’ [Zhou] said.”
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