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Internet users blocked from viewing politically dangerous si
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SHANGHAI, China (AP) -
Call it an upgrade of the Great
Fire Wall of China.
In the last week and a half,
China has begun using more
sophisticated, expensive tech
nologies in an effort to keep its
growing number of Internet
users from viewing undesirable
content on the Web.
Starting about Sept. 1, users
of the U.S.-based search engine
Google have found themselves
rerouted to a half dozen
Chinese-run search engines that
are less effective. Google has a
feature for finding Chinese-lan-
guage material online.
A few days ago, users of
another American search
engine, Altavista.com, also
found they were being rerouted
to the same heavily censored
Chinese sites.
This week, users have begun
complaining of an increase in
selective blocking — being able
to visit Web sites but not being
able to see specific articles or
other content of a politically
sensitive nature.
A common complaint has
been that users can access a for
eign media site but find only a
blank screen when they try to
call up an article on, for exam
ple, Chinese President Jiang
Zemin.
In its usual secretive way,
Beijing made no announcement
of the new measures and refused
to confirm their existence.
But analysts say the meas
ures represent a technological
leap from the earlier “Great Fire
Wall” of China, which had
clumsily tried to block entire
Web sites deemed politically
dangerous or pornographic.
“Blocking has been escalat
ed in the last week or so. It’s a
new high-water mark in Internet
controls,” said Duncan Clark,
managing director of BDA
China Ltd., a Beijing-based
Internet consulting firm.
Clark and others said the new
blocking seems to be related to a
Communist Party Congress
scheduled for November — a
time when restrictions on speech
are often tightened.
This congress is especially
sensitive because Jiang is
expected to give up his post as
secretary-general, beginning a
process of handing over power
to younger leaders.
Ben Edelman. a Harvard
University researcher who has
been documenting Chinese
online censorship, said China’s
recent filtering modifications
“show in new clarity their dedi
cation to restricting access to
content they deem undesirable,
inappropriate or simply illegal.”
Analysts say they’re more
interested in whether the con
trols will be eased after the con
gress.
Pressure to do so will be
intense because of the economic
costs, analysts said. Installing
and upgrading new censorship
software is expensive, and the
restrictions lead to
hensive searches and b
all Internet use.
On the other hand.
>mpre-
down
tie}
may be reluctant ft
authori-
give up
“Users are quite angr,
rely on foreign search
a work tool,” said the
who spoke on condi
anonymity. “We can ty
their new powers. Chinese
customers that the We
Internet companies may also
were shut
down b> the E
want the restrictions kept in
ment and
that we can do j
place to block foreign competi-
about it.”
tors.
A marketing exec.
“It’ll be an early test of the
Shanghai
Online, uh
tenor of the new administration”
asked not
to be named. ^
that replaces Jiang. Clark said.
of its Ch
mese-languagt
The decision highlights a
engine ha
s surged thisnxt
contradiction at the core of
The
government's
Beijing’s Internet policy: it
blocking
of entire site
encourages commercial and
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ically fairh pr
educational use by China s 30
and invol
ved placing fo
million-plus users while restrict-
what wci
■c then a hare
ing it as a forum for political
intematio
nal gateways-i
discussion.
China’s |
piece of the h
Many Chinese users arc
merged u
ith the broadr.
already complaining that the
supemetu
-ork.
Internet s business utility is
But gi
iteways are pr.
being damaged.
mg, and (
he site-specific:
“Without the English search
lire loo i
easily suleswpcc
engines, users in China are at a
proxy ser
s ers, compomr
dead end,” said Ben, a 36-year-
that help i
mask a user's ft
old employee at a foreign com-
pany in Shanghai who uses the
The n
ew. selective k
Internet for work. He asked that
tcchnolog
ies make it race
his family name not be used for
difficult
to access for?.
fear of official retaliation.
information. Clark aa:
“Chinese engines don't pro-
said. Yet I
they are technc- :
vide sufficient information on
ly more
difficult to atk
Chinese-language sites, let
— and
more costh
alone English sites.” he said.
requests i
ire tree to lea';
An operator at the customer
but many
incoming Wr
service center of Shanghai
arc bloc!
ted based oc:
Online, the largest service
key w'ords
provider in China’s largest city.
“The
Chinese hav;
said the company has been del-
working on these ne^ifT
uged with complaints.
gics for y
ears, L tart si
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Hiponse to the
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Report: Winter may bring high oil pric
Ten
LONDON (AP) — Higher, more
volatile oil prices will loom this winter if
OPEC refuses to boost crude production as
major importing countries head into the
peak heating oil season, an industry report
warned Wednesday.
A decrease last month in crude exports
from Iraq has squeezed supplies and con
tributed to a dwindling of U.S. inventories.
Global demand, meanwhile, is forecast to
rise by a robust 1.6 million barrels a day in
the fourth quarter, the International Energy
Agency said in its monthly oil market
report.
Markets now face a challenge similar to
that in 1999, when a plunge in oil invento
ries paved the way for a spike in prices and
extreme instability, it said.
“Today’s situation is every bit as precar
ious, given the fragile state of the global
economy and the threat of military action
against Iraq,” the agency said in an unusu
ally pointed message.
However, some respected industry ana
lysts argued that the IEA has overstated this
danger.
“We think it’s exaggerated,” said I eo
Drollas, chief economist for the Center tor
Global Energy Studies. He suggested that
the IEA might have "some kind of political
agenda" for making such a sharp warning.
The Paris-based 1HA is the energy
watchdog agency for the Organization for
Economic Cooperation and Development, a
grouping of rich, oil-importing nations. It
is, in effect, a consumer organization.
“So they’re sending a message saying.
’We need more oil just in case.”' said
Lawrence Eagles, head of commodity
research for London brokerage GNI Ltd.
World oil production slipped to 76.1
million barrels in August, down 5K(),(XX)
barrels a day from July. At the same time,
the IEA raised its estimate of demand
growth for the third quarter by 220,(XX) bar
rels a day to 76.5 million barrels. Global
demand would swell to 78.1 million barrels
a day in the fourth quarter, it said.
The United States, the lEA’s most pow
erful member and the world’s biggest
importer of oil, is seen to be leaning on the
Organization of Petroleum Exporting
19
steady
untries to boost production
tubers meet in Osaka, Japan, o
Washington hopes an increase« '
energy markets if it goes
against Iraq.
I raders concerns about tfc
led war against OPEC-m®**i
have on Middle East oi!
ilready inflated the price of oii
t estimates, this “war prerai®
S2-4 to the price of each tan?
r I f C ■
U.S
might
have
me
adde~ J f
Last month, the price of US.
sweet crude burst through the psych
cally important barrier of $30 a bar:
the first time since February
decrease in Iraqi exports of 270.000h
a day contributed to this upward pf?
on prices. So did a 510.000 barreled
daily production from the North Sea,®
seasonal maintenance of oil rigs therc
report said.
Average monthly oil prices have"
steadily from December to August.-
percent in New York and 43 percc'_
Sophomor
Newman h
Doc
London, according to IEA dat3
increase has been a fxxm for OPEC
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