8th forum on internet media of China

(chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2008-12-05 11:51

Wang Chen, minister of the State Council Information Office, delivers a keynote speech during the 8th Forum on Internet Media of China, in Chongqing, December 5, 2008. The minister urged the country's online media to help foster a society of integrity and honesty.[chinadaily.com.cn]

"The Internet is becoming more elaborate and popular, but it is also becoming more dangerous," Pi Xing, 23, a teacher from Jiangsu province who spends at least four hours a day online, said.

"It's horrible how one's personal information can be obtained and shown for all to see," she said.

A number of groups are making it their business to help keep unwanted elements off the Internet.

A website under the China Internet Information Center, Y.china.com.cn, launched a campaign in May to help keep rumors about the Sichuan quake off the Internet, with false information such as times of aftershocks and fake donation drives being weeded out, Song Gang, the portal's assistant director, said on Friday.

More than 150,000 people and 563 websites have so far signed up to help in the latest cleanup, Song said.

Nearly 1,000 people have also volunteered to help the website by collecting misleading information and fake advertisements, publishing these on the portal as a warning, Song said.

"The Internet can't stay clean without everyone's effort," Pi said.

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