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March 12, 2004<\/p>\n

“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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

‘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.”<\/p>\n

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