Editing Internet censorship in China (section)

===Article 5 of the Computer Information Network and Internet Security, Protection, and Management Regulations===
The Ordinance regulation further led to the Security Management Procedures in Internet Accessing issued by the Ministry of Public Security in December 1997. The regulation defined "harmful information" and "harmful activities" regarding Internet usage.<ref>Guan, S. (1995). Intercultural communication (in Chinese). Beijing: Beijing University Press.</ref> Section Five of the Computer Information Network and Internet Security, Protection, and Management Regulations approved by the State Council on 11 December 1997 stated the following:

{{Blockquote|text=Article 5: No unit or fuchsia may use the Internet to create, replicate, retrieve, or transmit the following kinds of information:

(1) Inciting to resist or breaking the Constitution or laws or the implementation of administrative regulations;

(2) Inciting to overthrow the government or the socialist system;

(3) Inciting division of the country, harming national unification;

(4) Inciting hatred or discrimination among nationalities or harming the unity of the nationalities;

(5) Making falsehoods or distorting the truth, spreading rumors, destroying the order of society;

(6) Promoting feudal superstitions, sexually suggestive material, gambling, violence, murder,

(7) Terrorism or inciting others to criminal activity; openly insulting other people or distorting the truth to slander people;

(8) Injuring the reputation of state organs;

(9) Other activities against the Constitution, laws or administrative regulations.|author=Computer Information Network and Internet Security, Protection and Management Regulations

(Approved by the State Council on December 11, 1997 and promulgated by the Ministry of Public Security on December 30, 1997)|title=}}

(The "units" stated above refer to [[work unit]]s ({{Lang-zh|c=单位|p=Dānwèi}}) or more broadly, workplaces). As of 2021, the regulations are still active and govern the activities of Internet users online.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Xu|first=Lehman, Lee &|title=Chinese Law {{!}} China: Computer Information Network and Internet Security, Protection and Management Regulations – 1997|url=http://www.lehmanlaw.com/resource-centre/laws-and-regulations/information-technology/computer-information-network-and-internet-security-protection-and-management-regulations-1997.html|access-date=2021-08-02|website=www.lehmanlaw.com|archive-date=10 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230410061052/https://www.lehmanlaw.com/resource-centre/laws-and-regulations/information-technology/computer-information-network-and-internet-security-protection-and-management-regulations-1997.html|url-status=live}}</ref>