China Puts Computer Whiz on Trial

Dec 05

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From: mea culpa <jericho_at_dimensional.com>
Date: Sat 05 Dec 1998 – 04:21:12 CST

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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-China-Internet-Trial.html

December 4, 1998
China Puts Computer Whiz on Trial
Filed at 2:30 p.m. EST
By The Associated Press

SHANGHAI, China (AP) — China has extended its crackdown on dissent to the Internet, putting a computer whiz on trial Friday for giving e-mail addresses to an online pro-democracy magazine.

The case is the first prosecution of its kind in the ruling Communist Party’s attempt to exploit the Internet commercially while crushing attempts to turn it into a forum for dissent.

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