Like some other, suposedly more liberal, counties, China is grappling with ways to prevent its residents from gambling at Internet casinos. Unlike those other nations, China has virtually no restriction on government actions, allowing it extreme measures to dissuade online casino play.
An announcement by the Chinese government today emphasized the plan to block hostile Internet influences operating outside its borders. Among the types of online sites targeted by the Chinese are gambling, pornography, and fradulent operations, and also political and informative sites and even search engines such as Google.
Google said last month it would no longer cooperate with Chinese censorship, and relocated its Chinese search engine to Hong Kong.
"We will strengthen the blocking of harmful information from outside China to prevent harmful information from being disseminated in China and withstand online penetration by overseas hostile forces," said the head of the governmental Information Office.
The government has enacted a law requiring Internet service providers to report users discussing state secrets. The category of state secrets is so broadly defined that virtually any issue desired can be linked to security.
Online gambling operators have received lengthy prison sentences, while three protesters posting articles about a pregnant woman who died in police custody were imprisoned for slander.
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