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U.S. pressures China over censorship

By Nicholas Kralev

The United States and China clashed Thursday on whether Internet freedom should become an official part of their diplomatic agenda, as the Obama administration stepped up pressure on Beijing to ease censorship rules and investigate recent Chinese cyber-attacks.

In the first major speech on the issue by a top administration official, coming a week after Google threatened to pull out of China over hacking and censorship, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton accused the Chinese and other governments of "hijacking" technology "to crush dissent and deny human rights."

"We look to the Chinese authorities to conduct a thorough review of the cyber-intrusions that led Google to make its announcement, and we also look for that investigation and its results to be transparent," Mrs. Clinton said at the Newseum in Washington.

It was not clear whether the administration will shed more light on the attacks if Beijing does not, but officials said they know much more about China's activities than they can discuss publicly at this time.

Google, which has operated in China since 2006 and abided by the government's censorship rules, said last week it will no longer honor those policies, which block certain words, phrases and images from the company's search engine. It said e-mail accounts of human rights activists had been hacked. At least 30 other companies reported similar attacks.

Mrs. Clinton said such actions "violate the privacy of citizens who engage in nonviolent political speech" and "contravene the Universal Declaration on Human Rights."

"The United States is committed to devoting the diplomatic, economic and technological resources necessary to advance these freedoms," she said. "We intend to address those differences [with China] candidly and consistently in the context of our positive, cooperative and comprehensive relationship."

Alec Ross, the secretary's senior adviser for innovation who played a key role in preparing her speech, said Beijing should have no doubt that the administration is "elevating this as a matter of our diplomacy" to help the 31 percent of people around the world whose governments are "actively censoring the Internet."

He also said the issue will become part of the U.S.-China strategic dialogue, which includes major political and economic matters between the two countries.

China disagreed, however, indicating that it will try to avoid giving Internet freedom the prominence Washington wants.

"The Google incident should not be linked to bilateral relations - otherwise, that would be over-interpreting it," Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei was quoted as saying by the official Xinhua News Agency.

Mrs. Clinton also criticized Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Tunisia, Uzbekistan, Vietnam and North Korea for erecting "electronic barriers that prevent their people from accessing portions of the world's networks." She said the State Department is "already working in more than 40 countries to help individuals silenced by oppressive governments."

The department will work with the private and nongovernmental sectors to develop new tools "circumventing politically motivated censorship" in local languages, she said. She urged American technology companies to make refusal to support censorship a "trademark characteristic."

"As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics," she added. "Countries that restrict free access to information or violate the basic rights of Internet users risk walling themselves off from the progress of the next century."

Mrs. Clinton also condemned the use of the Internet to "persecute or silence religious minorities."

"Connection technologies, like the Internet and social networking sites, should enhance individuals' ability to worship as they see fit, come together with people of their own faith, and learn more about the beliefs of others," she said.

Leonard A. Leo, chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, said he hoped the secretary's speech will start bringing "human rights diplomacy into the 21st century."

"The use and restriction of new technology is a future religious freedom battleground, as governments use technology to monitor religious freedom activists and stifle the flow of religious information," he said.

Source : U.S. pressures China over censorship - Washington Times
 
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My personal view is china shouldn't make google a another enemy. Google has reach in many countrys. It can make china's image alot worse then it is right now. i really dont understand why china always have problem with 'one man' army. That is dalai lama, tank man, google, and the lady who lives in america 'i forgot the name' etc etc. Google bit danger enemy as it can make china's image more worse around the world. Its just my personal view. Anyway india and google is like enemy forever. Google was known to be pro-china rather then pro-india.
 
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China hits back at US Internet criticism Fri, Jan 22, 2010 AFP

BEIJING - China on Friday rejected criticism of its Internet censorship by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, saying it harmed relations, as a row over Google's threat to leave the Chinese market escalated.

Clinton had urged China on Thursday to conduct a thorough probe into cyberattacks on Google and other US companies, and lamented what she said was Beijing's increasing efforts to control what its 384 million web users can see.

"We firmly oppose such words and deeds, which go against the facts and are harmful to China-US relations," foreign ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said, in China's strongest comments since the Google dispute erupted last week.


"We urge the United States to respect facts, and stop using the so-called Internet freedom issue to criticise China unreasonably," he said in a statement posted on the ministry website.

In a major policy speech on Internet freedom in Washington, Clinton reiterated US support for "a single Internet where all of humanity has equal access to knowledge and ideas".

She called on China "to conduct a thorough investigation of the cyber intrusions" revealed by Google and for "its results to be transparent".

The two sides have become locked in a spiralling dispute over Chinese web controls sparked by Internet giant Google's announcement last week it would no longer obey China's censorship rules and might pull out of the country.

Google said the decision was made after it suffered cyberattacks that the company believes originated in China and appeared aimed at cracking the email accounts of Chinese human rights activists.

China's government declined to respond to AFP requests Friday for comment on a possible investigation of the attacks.

Until Friday, Beijing had generally held fire in the dispute, defending its censorship as necessary and saying foreign firms must comply, but refraining from hitting back at mounting US criticism over its control of the Internet.

China is believed to employ thousands of people in a vast system of Internet censorship that has been dubbed the "Great Firewall of China," which polices what the world's largest online population can see and do on the web.

Beijing regularly invokes the need to stamp out pornography as a key reason for the controls, but critics contend its primary purpose is to quell political dissent or content seen as threatening to Communist Party rule.

Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! and Cisco are among the US technology giants that have been accused of cooperating with the "Great Firewall" by acquiescing to Beijing's demands.

In her speech, Clinton appeared to call on other companies to follow Google's lead and defy China.

"The private sector has a shared responsibility to help safeguard free expression," Clinton said.

"And when their business dealings threaten to undermine this freedom, they need to consider what's right, not simply the prospect of quick profits."

The State Department has plans to hold a high-level meeting next month with companies that provide network services for talks on Internet freedom.

Google's chief executive Eric Schmidt said the California company would like to remain in China, but could no longer agree to censor results on its Web search engine there.

"We continue to follow their laws, we continue to offer censored results," Schmidt, warning that "in a reasonably short time from now, we will be making some changes there".


Microsoft on Thursday released a patch for an Internet Explorer 6 software hole through which China-based cyber spies allegedly probed the computer systems of Google and other companies.

On Thursday, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei was quoted by state media as saying the Google case should not be linked with Sino-US relations.

Ma on Friday also urged the United States not to let the dispute upset relations, which are already dogged by a range of disputes over trade and currency issues, US arms sales to Taiwan, and climate change.

Ma said China hoped both sides would "respect each other's core interests and major concerns, properly handle differences and sensitive issues to maintain the healthy and steady development of Sino-US relations".
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i feel shamed for what chinese government has done to Google and his people.
i post this again
 
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Internet - New shot in the arm for US hegemony - China.org.cn

Internet - New shot in the arm for US hegemony


China Daily, January 22, 2010



The Internet originated on American soil. In 1969, the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the US Defense Department established the world's first testing packet-switched network (PSN) to connect four universities on US soil. The world saw a remarkable expansion of the scale and number of Internet users from the late 1970s to the early 1980s. In September 1989, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) was founded with a grant from the US Department of Commence to administer the Internet terminal server. Over the past 40 years, the US has been dominating the world Internet as the core technique holder with an inherent advantage of being the cradle of the Internet.

There are 13 terminal servers in the world to keep the Internet running, with a master server and nine of the 12 secondary servers stationed in the US. In terms of technique, the network of a country will disappear from the world Internet if its domain name registry is blocked or deleted from the terminal server. This kind of conduct is not legally binding with the law of any country except ICANN. In April 2004, Libya was unseen on the Internet for three days after the collapse of the domain name registry of the country "LY" caused by a domain administration dispute.

Concerns about the US monopoly of the domain name server (DNS) system grew among other nations as much as their reliance on the Internet for issues ranging from politics and the economy to defense and the general society. Years ago, there was a proposal that the Internet be administered by the United Nations or under international cooperation. The European Union insisted that the World Wide Web is an international resource that should be jointly managed by all nations. Some developing countries pointed out that at the early stage of Internet development, developed countries seized large amounts of domain names, leaving a limited few for them, and demanded a share with the US over Internet administration. American officials opposed the suggestion.

The US Defense Strategy Review in March 2005 stated that Internet space should have the same priority as continental, marine, aerial and outer space jurisdictions for the US to maintain a decisive superiority. A statement from Washington on June 30, 2005, made it clear that the US government would maintain its control over the DNS indefinitely; stating that a transfer of its management to UN or international cooperative models would impede the free flow of information, lead to easy manipulation of the Internet and make global supervision more difficult.

In an attempt to thwart the World Summit on the Information Society held in Tunis in November 2005, then US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice wrote to then European Union president and British foreign minister that her government in Washington backed Internet administration and coordination by ICANN (an alleged NGO which is actually a quasi-government organization with the US Department of Commerce). Rice said management by private corporations would guarantee the safety and stability of the Internet, while the alternative choice of an inter-government mechanism would be an obstacle to Internet development. At the same time, the US Congress passed a bill by a vote of 423 to zero urging a manifesto by the White House that American control over Internet is inviolable. US Rep. John Taylor Doolittle, a Republican from California, said the United States invented the Internet and described it as a gift to the world based on American taxpayers' money. He said he opposed any move to transfer the country's control to the UN.

The control of the Internet plays a strategic role for US. Using the internet, the US can intercept information via the net, export US values and opinions, support a "Color Revolution", feed the opposition powers and rebels against anti-US governments, interfere with other countries' internal affairs and make proactive attacks on enemy's communication and directing networks. James-Adams, a famous military forecaster, wrote in his book, The Next World War, these words: "The computer is the weapon for the future war and there is no virtual front line, as the traditional battle and the byte will take the bullet's role to grab control of the air."

US companies intend to make preparations for future global information control and sanctions during the progress of research and manufacture under the direction of the US government. As early as 2002, a CIA Internet spying plot was disclosed by the British media, saying the CIA sought to collect information by breaking into giant companies, banks and governmental organs and organizations across the world. Under the cover of a high-tech civil company, the CIA took cooperated with a software development company in the Silicon Valley to design software "bugs" to collect information via the Internet. The spying software binding with normal software would install automatically once a netizen started to use the normal software.

The New York Times reported in December, 2005 that the CIA cooperated with the country's telecom enterprises to invent a computer program capable of intercepting Internet communications. The Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS TV) claimed on Jan 11, 2006, that the CIA had established a special institution for the interception of information from other countries by using high-tech means. The institution's person in charge said in an interview with CBS that the CIA had obtained a great amount of information of great importance. Although Iran had been trying to hide its nuclear research and development work, the CIA found ways to get first-hand information and photos of its nuclear weapons work. The adoption of the interception technology helped the CIA get into the door of Iran's secret nuclear experiment after the execution of a CIA informant. He added that the CIA had never stopped its supervisory control over Iran since the wide adoption of the Internet and had built three tape libraries to store the information collected.

In the New York Times' words, social networking sites, as a new Internet favorite in the 21st century, have played a big role in protests in Georgia, Egypt and Iceland. The unsuccessful "Color Revolution" in Moldova in April 2009 was also called the "Twitter Revolution" because of the involvement of Twitter, a popular US-based Internet social networking site. There are people at the US-based Soros Open Society Institute who are in charge of boosting so-called "Democratic movement" in a "closed society" in the US. Iran had been in a turbulent situation after its election in June 2009, as the opposition party was spreading false messages, venting their discontent and holding protests on social networking sites such as Twitter and YouTube. The US government thought it such an effective tool to use against Iran that it even asked Twitter to postpone its regular maintenance date on June 15, saying, "Iran is in a defining moment, and Twitter is playing such a vital part in it, can you let it just work as usual?" The founder of Twitter felt excited to see that its site had become the "political tool" of the US government.

US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Twitter and other social networking sites are "strategic assets of great importance" because "these new technologies make it harder for the 'dictator regimes' to control information". A former intelligence official said the channeling of US ideology via the Internet is much easier than sending spies to target countries or training local agents in target countries who identify with US ideology. The move the US government made in June 2009 -- when it dissented over the Chinese government's order to install the filtering software Green Dam and pressured China's government for interfering in the freedom on the 'Net and the freedom of information flow -- is probably related to its intention to infiltrate China.

According to a Hong Kong media agency, the CIA invests tens of millions of US dollars every year to aid "Chinese net traitors" to infiltrate Chinese net users with US ideology. They haunt major Chinese forums and portals. A website called "Wazhe Online" (Chinese Pinyin) is a secret mission with the cooperation of US government institutions and overseas "Tibetan splittist organizations" with the tasks of agitating, deluding, infiltrating and instigating Chinese net users, making up rumors to initiate riots and collecting information via the Internet. A Tibetan youth who once worked with one organization said it is an online spy agency which is supported by the US financially, controlled by the Americans and serves the Americans. A commentary on Hong Kong-based Ta Kung Pao said those who publish stories sensitive to China's policies on the net have complex backgrounds and are hired by US and Japanese spy agencies.

US State Secretary Hillary Clinton has also attached importance to the Internet after taking office. She claimed that it's necessary to deal with the countries that roll back US media with the force of the Internet, especially making use of Facebook, YouTube, Flicker and Twitter to send voices from the US.

Former US President George W. Bush issued National Security Presidential Directive 16 (NSPD-16) to set up the first hacker force in American history, as well as of world history, in 2002. With the technology advantages, the US Department of Defense (DoD) advanced the idea of cyber warfare in 2004. In the summer of the same year, Bush signed a secret document which agreed to allow the DoD to launch a "hacker-style" devastation attacking enemies' computers. At the beginning of 2008, Bush again allowed the US forces to launch the cyber-attacks initially with the regard to giving the DoD a greater counter-power on the network. He demanded the forces to have the capability of accessing any open or closed long-distance computer network, and then maintain "complete concealment" and "quietly steal information" to destroy enemies' computer systems, destroy their command system, and even control their business and government affairs networks. The Air Force Cyber Command was founded on Sept 18, 2008, with the mission of defending their own network security and also attacking others.

US President Barack Obama repeatedly stressed the importance of the Internet during his campaign. He asked the relevant departments to assess the security of the American network, and to prepare for the implementation of information hegemony to continue the work of controlling the new generation of Internet Root Servers. The assessment report released by the US government on May 29, 2009, said that cyberspace threats have become one of the most serious economic and military threats facing the United States. The report emphasized that the US must show the world they were seriously responding to the challenge.. Against this background, Microsoft announced the closure of MSN services for Cuba, Iran, Syria, Sudan and the DPRK. But the world opinion considers this as information sanction instead of meeting a challenge.

A report from the New York Times on May.31, 2009, claims that almost all large military enterprises -- including Northrop Grumman Corp, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon Co -- have network contracts with the intelligence agencies of the US military. The first two enterprises engage in "offensive cyber war", which includes stealing other countries' sensitive information or paralyzing their networks by developing software tools after finding vulnerabilities in their computer systems.

The US Department of Defense announced a plan to establish the "United States Cyber Command" on June 23, 2009, in order to gain advantage in the field. Pentagon spokesman Whitman said the new command is going to "focus on protection". Only they themselves believe such a word. It is clear that the aim of founding the new command is to integrate the high-tech military units in different parts of the country and to strengthen defense. More importantly, it aims to improve the offensive ability and launch a preemptive cyber attack against "enemy countries" if necessary. For a long time in the past, the Pentagon has stressed that Internet is part of war and is a "military front". Before the first Gulf War, the CIA had planted a "virus chip" in the printers purchased by Iraq. They activated the virus using remote control technology before launching the strategic bombing. Then the air defense control system of Iraq suffered a failure. According to the estimation of defense expert Joel Harker, who has been studying the hacker program of the US military for 13 years, the US now has about 80,000 personnel engaging in cyber warfare. In terms of the "weapons" for cyber warfare, they have developed more than 2,000 computer viruses which could be used in cyber attacks such as Worms, Trojans, Logic Bombs and trap door viruses.
 
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i feel shamed for what chinese government has done to Google and his people.
i post this again

Yeah, you should be ashame of your baseless insult to your country,

How the hell you know exactly whats the true story within this

incident, if not so sure, better stop your stupid rant.

:smitten::pakistan::china:
 
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Internet - New shot in the arm for US hegemony - China.org.cn

Internet - New shot in the arm for US hegemony


China Daily, January 22, 2010



The Internet originated on American soil. In 1969, the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the US Defense Department established the world's first testing packet-switched network (PSN) to connect four universities on US soil. The world saw a remarkable expansion of the scale and number of Internet users from the late 1970s to the early 1980s. In September 1989, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) was founded with a grant from the US Department of Commence to administer the Internet terminal server. Over the past 40 years, the US has been dominating the world Internet as the core technique holder with an inherent advantage of being the cradle of the Internet.

There are 13 terminal servers in the world to keep the Internet running, with a master server and nine of the 12 secondary servers stationed in the US. In terms of technique, the network of a country will disappear from the world Internet if its domain name registry is blocked or deleted from the terminal server. This kind of conduct is not legally binding with the law of any country except ICANN. In April 2004, Libya was unseen on the Internet for three days after the collapse of the domain name registry of the country "LY" caused by a domain administration dispute.
This is why China should take the lead and attack the US to take over the Internet. The EU will follow, I am quite certain of it. :lol:

The US Department of Defense announced a plan to establish the "United States Cyber Command" on June 23, 2009, in order to gain advantage in the field.
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Yeah, you should be ashame of your baseless insult to your country,

How the hell you know exactly whats the true story within this

incident, if not so sure, better stop your stupid rant.

:smitten::pakistan::china:

maybe i dont know exactly whats the true story,but i really,exactly,do know what the freedom gaven by our Government is--can you tell me why the comments on "外交部:反对美利用互联网问题指责中国“ was closed then opened again.:coffee::smitten:
 
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maybe i dont know exactly whats the true story,but i really,exactly,do know what is the freedom gaven by our Government --can you tell me why the comments on "外交部:反对美利用互联网问题指责中国“ was closed then opened again.:coffee::smitten:

Do you really need to do this here ?:china:
 
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Internet - New shot in the arm for US hegemony - China.org.cn

Internet - New shot in the arm for US hegemony


China Daily, January 22, 2010



The Internet originated on American soil. In 1969, the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the US Defense Department established the world's first testing packet-switched network (PSN) to connect four universities on US soil. The world saw a remarkable expansion of the scale and number of Internet users from the late 1970s to the early 1980s. In September 1989, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) was founded with a grant from the US Department of Commence to administer the Internet terminal server. Over the past 40 years, the US has been dominating the world Internet as the core technique holder with an inherent advantage of being the cradle of the Internet.

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Concerns about the US monopoly of the domain name server (DNS) system grew among other nations as much as their reliance on the Internet for issues ranging from politics and the economy to defense and the general society. Years ago, there was a proposal that the Internet be administered by the United Nations or under international cooperation. The European Union insisted that the World Wide Web is an international resource that should be jointly managed by all nations. Some developing countries pointed out that at the early stage of Internet development, developed countries seized large amounts of domain names, leaving a limited few for them, and demanded a share with the US over Internet administration. American officials opposed the suggestion.
An absurd argument. No oil, no Internet. So when the EU and China successfully convinced the Arabs to give up control of their oil, and oil is far more a natural resource than the Internet, then we can talk about the US ceding control of the 13 root servers to the inept, incompetent and corrupt UN.

The control of the Internet plays a strategic role for US. Using the internet, the US can intercept information via the net, export US values and opinions, support a "Color Revolution", feed the opposition powers and rebels against anti-US governments, interfere with other countries' internal affairs and make proactive attacks on enemy's communication and directing networks.
A red herring to the topic. Can China explain how is it that only the US can do these things? What is to prevent China from 'exporting' a different set of values than American ones, feed anti-US elements living in the US? There are credible charges of break-ins of US servers that according to forensic evidences, point to China. So why are these attacks NOT qualify as proactive engagements against the enemy while he is unprepared?
 
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maybe i dont know exactly whats the true story,but i really,exactly,do know what the freedom gaven by our Government is--can you tell me why the comments on "&#22806;&#20132;&#37096;&#65306;&#21453;&#23545;&#32654;&#21033;&#29992;&#20114;&#32852;&#32593;&#38382;&#39064;&#25351;&#36131;&#20013;&#22269;“ was closed then opened again.:coffee::smitten:

Different voice is everywhere,we are Democracy.You can open another after closed by the moderator. Does the foreigner can help you?You can protest the moderator in that the forum.
 
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A red herring to the topic. Can China explain how is it that only the US can do these things? What is to prevent China from 'exporting' a different set of values than American ones, feed anti-US elements living in the US? There are credible charges of break-ins of US servers that according to forensic evidences, point to China. So why are these attacks NOT qualify as proactive engagements against the enemy while he is unprepared?[/QU

this is just what i wnat to ask:coffee: however, i wont ask,for i have read too much such offical ****
 
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