China - Prior censorship, legalized secret detention and increased Internet control

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders roundly condemns the prior censorship that the propaganda ministry imposed on domestic media coverage of the news conference that Prime Minister Wen Jiabao gave on 14 March, on the last day the annual National People's Congress. The organization is also very worried by the introduction of a system for identifying bloggers (实名制), the increased cooperation by the companies Sina and Baidu in monitoring Internet users (described in a report in the official periodical (...)

© Reporters sans frontières - vendredi 16 mars 2012