From: "Rich Gauszka" 

First the MPAA and now China wish to purify the net.

http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__busines
s/&articleid=296834

Chinese Communist Party chief Hu Jintao has vowed to "purify" the
internet, state media reported on Wednesday, describing a top-level meeting
that discussed ways to master the country's sprawling, unruly online
population.

Hu made the comments as the ruling party's Politburo -- its 24-member
leading council -- was studying China's internet, which claimed 137-million
registered users at the end of 2006.

Hu, a straitlaced communist with little sympathy for cultural relaxation,
did not directly mention censorship.

But he made it clear that the Communist Party was looking to ensure it
keeps control of China's internet users, often more interested in salacious
pictures, bloodthirsty games and political scandal than Marxist lessons.

The party had to "strengthen administration and development of our
country's internet culture", Hu told the meeting on Tuesday, according
to the official Xinhua news agency.

"Maintain the initiative in opinion on the internet and raise the
level of guidance online," he said. "We must promote civilised
running and use of the internet and purify the internet environment."

In 2006, China's Internet users grew by 26-million, or 23,4%, year-on-year,
to reach 10,5% of the total population, the China Internet Network
Information Centre said on Tuesday.

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