China Launches New Campaign to Censor the Internet

[mandy]

Chinese President Hu Jintao on Monday launched a campaign to rid the country's sprawling Internet of "unhealthy" content and make it a springboard for Communist Party doctrine, state television reported.

With Hu presiding, the Communist Party Politburo -- its 24-member inner council -- discussed cleaning up the Internet, state television reported. The meeting promised to place the often unruly medium more firmly under propaganda controls.

"Development and administration of Internet culture must stick to the direction of socialist advanced culture, adhere to correct propaganda guidance," said a summary of the meeting read on the news broadcast...

full article: http://www.reuters.com/article/technolog...0920070423

[rose]

Using advanced culture and propoganda guidance in the same sentence is an oxymoron if I ever saw one.  : .