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Some signs have indicated that Chinese government is loosening the Internet censorship before the start of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. According to reports , the Chinese government has stopped restricting access to the Chinese Wikipedia in China...
China has tightened control on online information concerning a massive riot in southern China that heightened security concerns just 39 days before the start of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Last weekend, about 30,000 angry residents in Weng'an...
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers - the organization that licenses domains like .com and .edu - meets in Paris this week to discuss two proposals which could change the shape of the Internet. The first would create a...
- Posted on 26/Jun/2008; tagged in Anonymity, Asia, China, Filtering tech and software, Legislation, Russia -
Those who were hopeful that the seeming opening of China’s media channels after the Sichuan earthquake heralded new openness overall will be disappointed to learn that the Chinese government has blocked a democratic activist group’s new website.
Human Rights in China (HRIC)...
Unofficial translation of China's "Provisions on the Administration of Internet Audio and Video Programming Services" issued by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) and the Ministry of Information Industry of the People’s Republic of China on...
Despite the approaching Olympic Games, it should come as no surprise to most observers of China that information about the spreading protests in Tibet (Autonomous Region) and other far western provinces is subject to vigorous censorship. YouTube enables certain actors actors to...
On November 20, 2007, the Beijing Communications Administration (BCA) ordered the closure of a popular Internet forum on the Hepatitis B virus (HBV). The Hepatitis B Camp Network of China [?????? ] (http://hbvhbv.com/) was started in September 2001...
As severe weather conditions have paralyzed great swaths of China’s physical infrastructure in some of the worst timing imaginable, the New York Times has published a story about “increasingly determined social resistance” in Chinese cyberspace. According to Howard French, once...
ONI has completed an unofficial English translation of China's new regulations of online audio/video, available here.
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The latest ‘innovation’ in Chinese legal regulation of the Internet targets online audio and video content. Effective January 31, 2008, the Provisions for the Management of Internet Audio and Video Programming Services build on previous Measures issued by broadcast media...
