nytimes: . . . And Click Here For China
The NY Times makes some new claims about internet censorship in China, suggesting the government has tried blocking emailed news reports.
CERTAINLY, the authorities still show signs of exasperation with independent-minded Web users. Newly trained "Internet police" patrol Web sites and chat rooms, weed out seditious thought and pornography, and read the e-mail of those suspected of crimes. The government is also trying to impose stricter registration of cafe users and recording of their online travels. Beyond blocking access via standard Chinese servers to hundreds, perhaps thousands of "anti-social" Web sites, the cyberpolice have also learned how to jam e-mail they deem threatening. In an continuing race of offensive and defensive technologies, dissident groups abroad were flooding the country with e-mailed newsletters, but these have been largely suppressed. The government has also started trying to block e-mailed news reports from the Voice of America, and popular chat rooms, some of which are forums for lively debate on current affairs, must maintain a full-time monitor who can filter out postings that enter vaguely defined forbidden zones. (see nytimes.com)