Interestingly, the Chinese government (China Internet Information Center) used the same medium to respond to the online campaign, supporting their claim that their actions constituted a violation of privacy, also a universal human rights standard.

This past Tuesday, the world was saddened to learn that Lin Hai was found guilty of subversion by providing lists of Chinese e-mail addresses to a United States-based dissident publication. He was sentenced to two years in prison. To date, the Digital Freedom Network has received over 1300 email messages about Lin Hai.

A recent directive from China’s Public Security Bureau has instructed its municipal branches to set up computer crime and surveillance unites to strengthen online supervision. Service providers are required to register all users with the government and barriers have been installed to try to block sites deemed subversive or pornographic. The Chinese government is now blocking the Digital Freedom Netwrok domain, so that any emails sent from their email form on our site are being filtered out.