WSIS Summit Turns Spotlight on Web Censorship
An AFP newswire article, via Yahoo! News, reports that:
Attempts by a United Nations communications and technology summit to expand the availability of the Internet turned the spotlight onto a dispute about censorship.
Chinese vice premier Huang Ju told the World Summit on the Information Society that some Internet restrictions were warranted to protect the state, although China wanted to "guarantee freedom of speech".
"For the Internet, we need effective measures to fight against criminal acts using this technology as well as economic fraud, violence, terrorism and anything that harms state security," he said.
China recently obliged Internet search engine Yahoo to hand over data that would allow it to track down a journalist who was critical of the authorities.
posted by Fergie @ 11/18/2005 07:06:00 AM
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