China wants to purify the internet environment

Chinese Communist Party chief Hu Jintao has vowed to purify the Internet. This means more sensorship to Chinese online communities. The Great Firewall’s rule will be more ruthless, filtering more emails, web sites, causing more headaches and troubles to Chinese internet users, specially the bloggers. I think this is a task that will be impossible for the Chinese authorities to successfully carry out in the long run. They’re even trying to ban anonymous blogging, but looking at the numbers, I think it’s doomed to fail.

China now boasts over 17.5 million bloggers, producing nearly 34 million blogs. An estimated 75 million Chinese netizens—more than half the country’s estimated 130 million Internet users—are blog readers.