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| China in drive to register all Internet sites |
| 2005-05-29 |
| BEIJING - Chinese-run websites have until the end of May to register their sites or face being shut down as part of a new government campaign to police the Internet, a leading portal announced Saturday. The registration drive is an effort by the Ministry of Information Industry to clamp down on fraud and other "unhealthy" activity on the Internet, the portal Sohu.com said. "If you have not registered by June, then your website could be ordered shut down," the portal quoted an official from the Beijing communications bureau as saying. The registration drive started in March and aims to issue registration numbers to all China-based websites, including commercial, government and personal sites, it said. Hundreds of thousands of websites are expected to be registered, the portal said, without giving a precise figure. The move is the latest in China's efforts to police the Internet and follow stringent efforts—known as the Great Firewall of China—to keep content authorities see as "unhealthy", like pornography and anti-government postings, off the web. China already requires all users of Internet cafes to register before using the Internet, while major websites have signed onto a code of conduct to keep non-authorized content off their websites and chatrooms. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #4 Many factors to consider when dealing with elephants... |
| Posted by: .com 2005-05-29 17:53 |
| #3 I wouldn't worry so much about *throwing* a bull elephant in the rutting season[musth]. :) |
| Posted by: run for the hills 2005-05-29 16:01 |
| #2 Your choice, gromky, but you might want to consider moving to a slower - but free-er - site. I wouldn't trust the Chinese as far as I could throw a bull elephant in the rutting season. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2005-05-29 12:13 |
| #1 I just started my own website, and had it hosted in China for reasons of speed (overseas hosts are sloooow). I have to get a permit within 60 days or get shut down. Details at http://www.zca.gov.cn/promu_query.asp?id=36 Use Worldlingo or Babelfish to translate from Simplified Chinese to English, if you're interested in legalese. |
| Posted by: gromky 2005-05-29 12:06 |