Friday, July 10, 2015

China Tightens Its Control Of The Internet With Draft Cybersecurity Law

From TechCrunch:

China Tightens Its Control Of The Internet With Draft Cybersecurity Law

China’s government is tightening its grip on the internet in the country after it released a new draft cybersecurity law this week.

The draft — an English version is available at Chinalawtranslate.com — was released for comments earlier this week — the feedback loop will close in August — but it went unreported by domestic media until Wednesday. There’s not much that it is actually new inside the proposed regulation, instead it formalizes a lot of powers that China has used in the past while granting wider decision making powers to the Cyberspace Administration of China, as the New York Times noted.

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