The warning followed renewed reports that local governments are establishing Internet surveillance units and tracking down people who use the Web to express political dissent or other nonconformist ideas. Police are searching for the Web site's organizers, according to the New York-based Human Rights in China group. The government's deep ambivalence toward the Internet, which Beijing fears could be used to unite political opposition to the Communist Party, has slowed the medium's development here. And it threatens to distort the new industry in much the way the country's planned economy distorted other industries in the past, favoring inefficient government-owned ventures over more creative private ones. All rights reserved.
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