Chinese censorship concerns more the boss of Google

In Hong Kong, Eric Schmidt has indicated that he thinks the new Chinese law which condemned to three years in prison authors of "slander" and "false information". He is concerned about the worsening of censorship in China.

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While access to a web accelerates across the globe, the freedoms of Internet users, and the first to speak freely falling. This fact is recognized by non-governmental organizations that specialized in these cases, but also by the decisions in several states of the world to limit the opportunity to express themselves and access information.

All countries take for their grade, including the report ofFreedom House in which France is pinned. But China remains the quickest to monitor state and especially condemn the remarks published and read online.

In September, the country decided to condemn the users who publish a "false information" or slander consulted by 5,000 persons or retweeted 500 times. The penalty for this offense is up to three years imprisonment and deprivation of political rights.

Two million workers to monitor 564 million Internet users

On a trip to Hong Kong, Eric Schmidt, chairman of Google, has not hesitated to do what he thought of the decision in an interview with the South China Morning Post revealed by AFP. It is mainly expressed concern about these restrictions and calls on the Chinese government to allow access to the Internet. "China has adopted a directive on 500 occasions. After that, you'll probably think twice before writing something. This is a problem that means your voice is not fully understood, "said he said.

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Mr. Schmidt also stated that due to the censorship of the Chinese Internet, "Google does not intend to invest in the country at the moment. "He said that his group has abandoned its search engine in Chinese on the mainland in 2011 to transfer to Hong Kong." Regime of censorship in China has significantly worsened since we went. This will require that things change before we go back. "

China does not seem to give the orders of Eric Schmidt. Google's departure allowed him to develop his own services, for the most part, are modeled on the U.S. offers. Baidu is the national search engine is the most visited China.

With 564 million Internet users, China is investing heavily in Internet monitoring. According to the Beijing News, activities Net surveillance and censorship occupy two million paid by the government and the Communist Party, and commercial sites.