From the Wall Street Journal: Senior U.S. trade officials have called on China to revoke an order for all personal computers in China to be shipped with Web-filtering software, saying the requirement could conflict with...
From AP: China has decided to restrict the broadcasting of Internet videos — including those posted on video-sharing Web sites — to sites run by state-controlled companies and require providers to report questionable content to the government. It wasn’t immediately clear how the new rules would affect YouTube and other providers of Internet video that […]
From Shanghai Daily: The government has ordered Chinese search engines to remove illegal and unhealthy information from their search results, the Ministry of Information Industry said yesterday. The Websites, including Google China, China Yahoo and Baidu.com, will have to clean up their results within a week, Xinhua news agency reported. They should map out a […]
From Reuters: China is to back down from a plan to require bloggers to use their real names when they register Web logs, following an outcry over the proposal from the Internet industry, official media reported on Tuesday. Instead, the government would promote a ‘self-discipline code‘ that would encourage, but not mandate, bloggers to register […]
On the recent hot topic blog real name registration, the Beijing-based technology blogger Keso wrote on his Playin’ with IT – DonewsBlog (translated by CDT): Many people say, management (of the society) is a form of art. That’s nonsense. The most direct, straightforward management (like the blog real name registration), is not art, not even […]
From Danwei blog: There’s a new hoo haa on the Chinese Internet about new regulations that will require bloggers to register their real names with the authorities. The rumblings about real name registration are emerging from the Ministry of the Information Industry (MII), the body that oversees Internet and telecoms. It seems that few bloggers […]
The following is an excerpt from an article appearing on the website of the Ministry of Information Industry (link) (translated by CDT): On Feb. 21, the Ministry of Information Industry initiated the “Sunshine Green Internet Project” series of activities. Vice Minister Xi Guohua said in the kick-off meeting that the formal launch of the “Sunshine […]
From Interfax China : The Chinese government last week began closing down websites whose owners had not registered their personal information with the Ministry of Information Industry (MII), government officials said. “Unregistered websites were shut down as a warning. The government is not punishing anyone,” Hu Yonglong, the Vice Director of the Shanghai Communications Administration […]
From ChinaTechNews.com: China’s Ministry of Information Industry (MII) has warned that websites who do not comply with recent registration guidelines will have their Internet Protocol (IP) addresses blocked. MII says about 30% of websites in China still have not registered for an Internet Content Provider (ICP) identification number. As a result, not only will these […]
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