China to protect online whistleblowers, but only via official site


  • TECH
  • Thursday, 12 Sep 2013

PROMISES GALORE: China's government will protect from retribution and attacks people who use the Internet to report corruption, but only those who use an officially sanctioned website to do so, a senior official said on Thursday. — Reuters

BEIJING: China's government will protect from retribution and attacks people who use the Internet to report corruption, but only those who use an officially sanctioned website to do so, a senior official said on Thursday. 

President Xi Jinping has made fighting pervasive graft a central theme of his new administration, warning that the problem is so severe it could threaten the survival of the ruling Communist Party. 

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