China to Control Blogs under Internet Publishing Law

Some would argue that freedoms in China are advancing:

China plans tighter control of blogs and webcasts under a new Internet publishing law, state media on Tuesday quoted the country's top media supervisor as saying. "Advanced network technologies such as blogging and webcasting have been mounting new challenges to the government's ability to supervise the Internet," then official Xinhua news agency quoted Long Xinmin, the head of China's Press and Publications Administration, as saying.