China: new rules for national search engines.

The China Internet Network Information Centre, which is the Chinese bureaucracy that dictates the rules compelling technical adjustment to all Internet Service Provider of the densely populated country, has issued the directives for all servers that provide search services through the web. Officially, the regulation serves to reduce the incompatibility of different standards that would make domestic firms less competitive, as well as feared security problems, but obviously this is another step toward state control of the entire infrastructure. Freedom of access to information and discussion is a social possibilities most feared by oppressive Chinese government. Not many days ago were arrested dissidents who had expressed their views via the Internet , while still emblematic are efforts to make effective censorship of unwanted sources , in what a pun is defined as the Great Firewall of China.