China tightens internet controls

China has tightened controls on internet use, requiring anyone who wants to buy into up a website to collect regulators and produce ID documents.

The technology ministry said the measures were designed to tackle online pornography, but internet activists recognize it in that increased jurisdiction censorship.

A number of websites are now now registered overseas in an attempt to avoid controls.

China has the world's biggest online population: more than 380m users.

The represantative of Industry also intelligence Technology on Tuesday lifted a freeze introduced consequence December on registration for innumerable individual websites.

Extensive censorship

But the technology legate said would-be website operators would now trust to tender personality cards further photos of themselves, as actually as meeting regulators before their sites could be registered.

The freeze had been imposed by the state-sanctioned group which registers kingdom names, after complaints by portray media that not enough was due to done to screen websites for pornography.


The internet remains a surprisingly responsive and critical environment in China.

Internet users think used authentic to rub in cases of injustice or to embarrass angry officials.

China's web users often manage to pursue one step ahead of clout controls, says our correspondent.

The Chinese authorities believe launched a number of campaigns against online pornography, with the government saying thousands of kin were detained last year alone.