12-27-96. WaPo snippet: China said it plans to strengthen its already strict controls over the Internet. The China Consumers Daily, an official newspaper, mentioned the planned tighter controls in a report on a recent conference in Beijing, but did not provide details. Earlier this year, China required Internet users to register with police and warned that laws against pronography, social disturbances and breaches of state security apply online. [Whole story.] ----- Sounds like US policy foretold, boiling the frog. The Administration's current CN policy must include a secret GAK-product sharing deal, to parallel those with OECD and the world's big-bit-fearful. Behold the burgeoning, slobbering, Key Recovery Alliance: billions of targets to be tracked, keys shared with authorities who give out the contracts, profits ka-chinged (low pun). Gerstner says he can't believe the money IBM's going to make off sweet deals to control the Internet -- just like the old days before the anarchistic start-ups got uppity and out-foxed the old-money-archists.