Fang Binxing durante una conferencia. AP
El padre del "Gran Muro" that controls the web in the Asian nation, ha sido elegido presidente de una nueva asociación de "seguridad cibernética".
JAVIER ESPINOSA – Beijing Correspondent
30/03/2016 13:24
Chinese authorities are preparing to establish a list of officially approved internet domains in what many experts consider to be a new step to strengthen web censorship., which could lead to the exclusion of such common endings as .com or .org.
According to an announcement published by a page of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, The new legislation would require that all Internet addresses have an official permit - and therefore pass the screening of local censors- to be able to operate in the Chinese virtual space. Las que no se registren serán bloqueadas."Eso permitiría al gobierno vigilar la actividad de los usuarios y reforzar su control sobre que contenidos son accesibles. If this trend continues, The Chinese internet will become a large intranet completely monitored by Big Brother. (With this measure) El gobierno podría bloquear todos los dominios procedentes del extranjero", indicated Slow Yip, presidente de la Asociación de Proveedores de Internet de Hong Kong a Bloomberg."Es una escalada muy seria, una decisión sin precedentes", said Lokman Tsui., professor of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of the same former British colony.
In this sense, the character who is considered the main architect of the framework that Beijing uses to censor the web, scientist Fang Binxing, Last Friday he was named president of the newly created Cyber Security Association (ASC) china, which brings together the big firms in the industry - names like Baidu, Alibaba, Tencet and telephone companies such as China Mobile or China Unicom- and sector experts. Recipient of countless praises from local power, Fang, of 55 years, es al mismo tiempo "uno de los científicos más odiados del país" -in the words of the South China Morning Post newspaper- por su decisiva participación en la configuración del llamado "Gran Corta Fuegos" (Great Firewall) que permite a Pekín "rastrear" la web y "limpiarla" of prohibited content identified by keywords, for example Dalai Lama, or block a user's internet access if it detects that they are searching for these matters.
During a visit he made in 2011 to Wuhan University, the capital of Hubei province, Fang was greeted with critical banners and a student even threw a shoe at him, emulating the style of protest that had been popularized by opponents of Arab dictatorships., en un gesto que se convirtió en un fenómeno viral en el país asiático.La agencia oficial Xinhua indicó que el propósito de la ASC no es otro que servir de "puente" entre el estamento privado y el gobierno para "organizar y mobilizar fuerzas de todo el espectro social para participar en la construcción de la ciberseguridad de China".
The new conglomerate will ultimately depend on Chinese power, through the Cyberspace Management department. Analysts such as Joshua Rosenzweig, quoted by the same South China Morning Post, They warned that this new effort confirms the close collaboration of large internet companies and the PCC when it comes to cutting elements such as user privacy or freedom of expression, a cambio de beneficiar sus intereses empresariales."No me sorprende. From a business point of view it is understandable. They try to avoid any political risk.
But when it comes to respecting human rights, they have failed. Durante todos estos años esas empresas se han acostumbrado no sólo a seguir las órdenes del gobierno sino a mostrar que ellos mismos adoptan pasos en el mismo sentido", declared Rosenzweig. During the last World Internet Conference that was held last December, President Xi Jinping once again demanded that the web stop being a universal space and adopt a territorial division by nations, that allows each country to regulate it - and restrict it- at your whim. "Internet no puede ser un territorio al margen de la ley", the Chinese leader assured to justify his claim.
