Beijing Might Issue Regulations Aimed at Censoring Online Videos – Geoffrey Fowler and Juying Qin

From the Wall Street Journal:

China may issue new regulations to censor online videos, extending the government’s efforts to control the Internet into a burgeoning new type of Web content.

But it remains unclear exactly who would be targeted by the regulations — service providers or individual video creators — and how the rules would be implemented.

China’s official Xinhua news agency yesterday reported that the country would “issue new regulations against Web sites which broadcast short films without state permission,” citing the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, or Sarft, as its source.[Full Text and subscribers only]

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