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Internet regulator restructured

The new, revamped Ministry of Industrial and Information Technology.

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Video website licenses for 247 sites
Big Three left in the cold

247 websites and companies get approval for online video, but the Big Three are left out in the cold.

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Big Three left in the cold

Tudou: online video problems

A rumor about Tudou.com being shut down by SARFT.

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The new rules about online video in China

In the last few days of 2007, two government ministries, SARFT and MII, announced a new set of rules to govern online video websites like Tudou,com, Youku.com, 56.com and other Youtube clones. On December 29, Beijing-based telcoms consulting firm Marbridge … Continue reading

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Danwei Picks: 2007-12-28

China Daily issues a correction, MII might limit video websites to state-owned companies, and the Nankai University student body destroys a Buick.

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The paradox of registering bloggers’ real names
by Wang Xiaofeng

Wang Xiaofeng on a proposed blogger ID verification system: I don’t believe that you can eliminate the sentence ‘fuck your mother’ for even half a year unless China devotes huge, huge resources to controlling such people.

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by Wang Xiaofeng