| How hard it is to keep a blog in China.. |
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| Wednesday, 14 March 2007 | ||||
 Chinese government has recently approved a measure to intensify controls over blog’s contents and authors. The announcement comes straight from the country's chief censor and it was reported on Tuesday by the Beijing Morning Post. A similar decision was taken, according to the director of China's General Administration of Press and Publication Long Xinmin, to regulate the wide community of bloggers .
"We must recognize that in an era when the Internet is developing at a breakneck pace, government oversight and control measures and means are facing new tests," Long said, immediately adding that no violation of citizens’ freedom of expression would be perpetrated. The measure hasn’t been adopted yet but Chinese bloggers expressed their scepticism against it: they are afraid about the consequences that further restrictions could have in a country whose censoring system is one of the most active and strict in the world. Last year, for example, China's Ministry of Information Industry issued rules on Internet news content that analysts said was aimed at extending regulations governing licensed news outlets to blogs and Internet-only news sites. According to Reuters’ statistics, by last September, the number of blog sites in China reached 34 million, a 30-fold increase from four years before. In China, keeping a blog is considered as a form of liberation, a way to express what it is commonly inexpressible in real life: government action is focused on preventing the publication of data , information and opinions that could someway create a damage to people or the Government. "The publishing administration authorities have been paying attention to this new mode of Internet dissemination," Long said.
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