China blocks SlashNOT
Posted by Matthew on Wednesday November 27, 2002 @12:57PM
from the freedom-of-repression dept.
Matthew writes:
China has been blocking access to SlashNOT for the past three weeks, according to various SlashNOT subscribers in that country. SlashNOT efforts to determine why were slow in coming, but this official response comes from Liu Xu Zhan, of the People’s Ministry for Hygiene and Information Security:
“The PMHIS has blocked SlashNOT for the past 23 days. PMHIS will consider removing the block when the material posted on SlashNOT conforms to the ministry’s guidelines concerning humorous Internet content. The specific article in violation is Title 7, Article 15, Section 4: “Content providers for print media, radio, television, and Internet purporting to be humorous should actually be funny. It is the mission of the PMHIS to protect the People of China from content that breeds moral degradation, contributes to boredom, or fosters malcontentedness, and to sanitize public telephones and Internet kiosks.”