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Chongqing Municipality's New Laws on Online Comments

internet ticket Chongqing's new legal measures seeks to penalize comments left by netizens that have a "serious consequences." This includes comments that start rumors about celebrities.

"The reports of suicides and attacks on individuals and the online denunciations have been compared with those of the Cultural Revolution, the chaotic period between 1966 and 1976 when Red Guards harangued people they judged insufficiently loyal to Chairman Mao Tse-tung.

Under the new Chongqing rules, any institutions or IT systems which want an Internet connection will have to register with police, although the rules stopped short of requiring all Webizens to register with the Public Security Bureau after a public outcry, the China Daily reported."

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Posted by Tricia Wang on October 18, 2006 11:02 PM |

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