Belarus toughens Internet controls
Today at 18:02 Associated Press
Belarus' authoritarian leader promised Wednesday to toughen regulation of the Internet & its users in an apparent effort to exert control over the last fully free medium in the former Soviet state.
白俄羅斯的獨裁領袖週三承諾會加強規管互聯網和它的用戶，顯然是為了施加控制於這個前蘇聯國家的最後全自由的媒體上。
"We will identify any person who disseminates lies and dirt, and will make them answer strictly to the law," President Alexander Lukashenko said.
“我們將辨出任何人發布謊言和污垢，並會令他們回答嚴格的法律"，總統盧卡申科說。
He told journalists that a new Internet bill, proposed Tuesday, will require the registration and identification of all online publications and of each Web user, including visitors to Internet cafes. Web service providers will have to report this information to police, courts and special services.
Lukashenko has ruled Berlarus with an iron fist since 1994, weeding out opposition and dissidents. All television channels and most print media have become state-controlled, and many of the independent newspapers ordered closed have taken refuge in cyberspace.
Last June, Belarus adopted a media bill that allowed the government to close Web sites without warning and imprison journalists for reproducing foreign media reports.
Lukashenko won a third term in 2006 in an election Western governments deemed fraudulent.
Belarusian President Aleksander Lukashenko promises to hunt down and punish anyone 'spreading lies and dirt' in the .by Internet zone
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