The Chinese government prohibits to enter more than half a million Internet sites
There will be filters in all cybercafés' computers. 
Appeared in Clarín.
Appeared in Clarín.|
Translation by Carolina Friszman. 
Pekin government has ordered to install a series of filter programs in the computers of all cybercafés around the country to control and denounce users who access a long list of sites that have been banned by the communist regime. The programs will be fully on before next weekend. The Information, Human Rights and Democracy Center, a NGO dedicated to monitoring civil rights in Asia, considered that the measure is a "blatant outrage against individual freedom".The Chinese government has ordered to install filter programs in the Internet cafés all over the country, that have been closed for weeks now, after the fire in one of them that killed 25 people. The programs will filter the consults made by the users to more than half a million sites considered to be "reactionary" by the authorities. The government has devided the Internet pages into five categories according to their "danger". (...) The Chinese government's plan states that all users will have to register before surfing from Internet cafés, handing in their ID to the administrator, who will keep it while the users stay there. (...) If the surfer uses free web mail, such as the famous Hotmail and Yahoo!, the Police will be able to decode their password and access their personal account to control whether they have spread "information to be censored". (...)
 
July 5, 2002.
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