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Government allows networking sites\u2014if they block or remove controversial material. China’s domestic security chief, Zhou Yongkang, added his voice to calls for tighter Internet controls as censors ratcheted up temporary online restrictions, a day after a failed attempt to use social-networking sites to start a “Jasmine Revolution” in China. Mr. Zhou, one of the nine members of the Communist Party’s Politburo Standing Committee, the country’s top decision-making body, was quoted in official media Monday as saying Chinese officials needed to find new ways to defuse social unrest.<\/strong> <\/p>\n

He made the remarks at a meeting of Chinese officials on Sunday, when police and Internet censors easily thwarted an anonymous online appeal for people to stage simultaneous antigovernment protests in Beijing, Shanghai and 11 other Chinese cities.<\/p>\n

“Strive to defuse conflicts and disputes while they are still embryonic,” Mr. Zhou was quoted as saying. On Saturday, President and party chief Hu Jintao also called in a speech for tighter Internet supervision to help prevent social unrest. Only a handful of people turned up Sunday for the planned protests, as police detained or confined to their homes dozens of activists across China and Internet censors blocked searches for the word “Jasmine” on Twitter-like microblogging sites and other websites.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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