China Denies Internet Controls Lead to Arrests
Well, what did you expect them to say?
A Reuters newswire article, via Yahoo! News, report sthat:
Chinese people can freely access the Internet and the government has never arrested anyone for expressing an opinion on the Web, an official state newspaper said on Wednesday. Chinese regulations were also in line with international practices and no different from rules in other countries like the United States which seek to block sites with harmful content, the China Daily said, quoting a senior Internet watchdog official.
"No one in China has been arrested simply because he or she said something on the Internet," Liu Zhengrong, vice head of the Internet Affairs Bureau of the State Council Information Office, was quoted as saying.
posted by Fergie @ 2/14/2006 04:38:00 PM
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