Learn from landmark court case

On March 25, Hu Xingdou, a professor of economics at the Beijing Institute of Technology, received an email from his Internet service provider, the Beijing Xin Net.

The email was a notice to shut down his personal website because it contained "illegal content", which, according to the notice, were three online posts he wrote on corporate bribery among Chinese officials.

A Xin Net employee told Hu that they shut down his website on orders of the Internet monitoring section of the Suzhou police in East China's Jiangsu province.