(Clearwisdom.net) The Central News Agency reported on June 23 from Taipei that the P.R.C.'s Ministry of Public Security is planning to establish a security monitoring system of public information, which will cover the entire country as a response to an attack of hackers and "unhealthy information" spreading through the Internet.

Hong Kong's Wenhui Daily reported that Qu Yanwen, the director of the Center for the State Information Security and Computer Examination, recently revealed this plan in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province.

Qu pointed out that the system will monitor all kinds of information transmitted via the Internet and flag the information that needed to be filtered from foreign websites. It will also immediately halt the circulation of the so-called "unhealthy information" within China. It will exercise security measures as well as collect evidence and identify the persons responsible for any behavior deemed to be criminal.

Qu also pointed out that the traditional information monitoring system relied on the examination after the fact, and it lagged far behind.

After an arson in an Internet Cafe in Beijing, Jia Qinglin, the Secretary of the Party in Beijing, decided the same day to close 2,400 Internet cafe. The Weekly World News reported that Jiang Mianheng [the son of Jiang Zemin] said: "China should establish a nationwide network, independent of the Internet." However, the Internet is a necessity with regards to accessing knowledge of the dynamic development of the world economy and politics. A nationwide network in China would not be sufficient to let people know about these developments. In other words, the government wants the Chinese people to only learn about the world based upon information provided by the Party. In the 21st Century, this will be difficult to achieve, no matter how isolated a country is.

According to Jiang Mianheng, China must establish a nationwide network independent of the Internet as well as the computer monitoring system promoted by the Ministry of Public Security. If so, we cannot help but ask, "What would be left for the Chinese people?"

Posting date: 7/5/2002
Original article date: 7/4/2002
Category: Latest News from China
Translated on 6/29/2002
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.cc/mh/articles/2002/6/23/32242.html

 Yearly Archive  Printer Version