Internet servers will be responsible for their contents
New actions of the Chinese Government. 
Appeared in CNN.
Appeared in CNN.|
Translation by Carolina Friszman. 
Chinese Internet servers will be legally responsible for their contents, according to a new law that will come into effect next month in China. The rule states that these companies will be legally responsible for any piece of content that "poisons young people's mind, promotes cults and superstitions and endangeres national security".This new measure has its context within a government's campaing that began last June, after the death of 25 people who were surfing the net at a café in Pekin. The campaign intends to make order in this medium of communication, which used to enjoy a considerable degree of freedom in a country where the media are firmly supervised by the authorities. Pekin has ordered that thousands of these shops must close their doors because of their lack of safety measures, and it has announced the installation of programs in all terminal computers that automatically contact the Police if a client accesses a banned site. Internet companies, on the other hand, began signing last March an agreement of "self-discipline" to control their contents.
 
July 16, 2002.
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