Comments on: China To Crack Down On Video Hosting Sites

By: Crack new

Crack new — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:37:13 +0000

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By: Sunstreak

Sunstreak — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:29:21 +0000

Ok, I admit that sometimes China is way to intense on putting the hammer down on it’s people. But in all actuality they do have a good point. I don’t think some things should be of great concern because that means people can’t even express themselves.

I truly wish that in my home country the U.S., some things would be controlled better and others left alone. I agree with China on banning people who share things like secrets or information about our governments.

Many things are scandalous about almost all governments but there is some information that, in my opinion should not be shared with the public on a daily basis, like troop movements, our future tactical intentions. I do not like when I see this.

Other than that I wish China would let the people express themselves more. I love the Chinese and I wish the were not treated like robots in there country.

I know there are freedoms but it’s controlled with harsh consequences for stepping out of line for even the simplest things like saying “I don’t agree with our government”.

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By: Fractured Thoughts from Buckyben » video. no stinking video.

Fractured Thoughts from Buckyben » video. no stinking video. — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:21:38 +0000

[...] China is a government. It is a nationality. It is a culture. IT is also a corporation. And it enforces it’s own corporate rules on employee technology usage. [...]

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:37:01 +0000

We are an online karaoke sites, and we got a lot video content, is that going to say we may also get banned? god help us!

By: Catshanghai

Catshanghai — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 04:37:54 +0000

I have just read a blog post from David Feng (formerly of Blognation), which confirms the need for Techcrunch to hire a writer based in China. David is based in Beijing.

Otherwise, you seem doomed to keep writing posts that miss the mark by dwelling on the stereotype that the Chinese government just wants to shut down the Internet. The reality is not so straightforward and David’s post about this issue debunks a few myths.

Here is the link: ‘Mind the Gap Saturday: Demystifying the “Video Ban” in the Pipeline’ http://www.tech...log86.com/?p=13

By: Larry

Larry — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 20:36:21 +0000

It looks like the Big Bad Wolf is alive and well and living in Beijing.

By: A Chinese

A Chinese — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 18:04:44 +0000

help~~~ i can’t bear the stupid govt any more! they block wikipeida, blogs, and now… videos! i’ve no idea why. but simple face is that: all chinese people hate it.

By: Anna~Anna

Anna~Anna — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 12:33:03 +0000

As an American citizen, and as a Native American too; I am thinking that the whole point here is to be thankful for ALL of our own little freedoms…

By: Don Jones

Don Jones — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 04:21:12 +0000

And this is news? China does all kinds of things that if the U.S. did them we would be excoriated in the media. It’s because people expect it of them.

By: LonnieB

LonnieB — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 03:46:16 +0000

It feels a bit like everyone is crying “wolf” or “totalitarian”a bit early.
The government has not said anything specifically about Youtube yet. In the case of Skype a few years ago China openly threatened to restrict access because they perceived Skype as a threat to China Telecom. But in the end, when CTC’s stock kept blowing through the roof, the saber-rattles ceased. I use Skype daily.
The Chinese video share sites are not pulling in a lot of revenue and costs are high, so part of this new mandate may be in part protectionist.
Christine is right: this does not differ from controls already in place for websites, individuals and portals. China is choosing to regulate the Internet in much the same way the FCC controls TV and radio in America.
I think it is too soon to get hysterical. And my guess is the average Chinese netizen is going to prefer Chinese content–censored or not–over lots of Youtube offerings. And as stated above: any savvy user here knows how to bypass the controls. Also, Youtube loads terribly slow here on this developing system of relays and bandwidth, so a lot of Chinese just avoid Youtube anyway. I no longer assign Youtube videos to my students to watch because the school servers are just to slow to make it a reasonable request.
Google videos have been blocked here for as long as I can remember. How will this be any different?

By: Debbie Weil

Debbie Weil — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:06:52 +0000

I have never said – or advocated – that “live blogging” an event is a bad thing. To the contrary, it’s one of the strategies I endorse in my book, The Corporate Blogging Book. My comments about whether or not executives of Sina.com should submit to interviews by bloggers at Ad-Tech Beijing were misinterpreted. End of story.

By: erick

erick — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:44:05 +0000

@Christine -

I dont have preconcieved notions of Chinese people. They are fine, hard working people with a great and proud history. The govt, however, is another story.

They are a closed off, marxist and have a dangerous distrust in its own people. Any govt that locks down the people in order to protect itself is a govt that should be removed by the people.

By: xin chen

xin chen — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:38:03 +0000

The problem isn’t that serious. The problem stems from the fact the government wanting more control on what’s shown across those online video site. As long as those online video sites play along, I don’t think there would be any serious problem. One thing I am not clear is whether the subsidiary of the government agency (such as stated owned tv stations) want a piece of the online video pie. If so, there is potential conflicts of interests which could post some problems with existing players in the field.

By: Technicle

Technicle — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:35:56 +0000

@18

Don’t think so.. in fact a lot of major built-outs, to date, have been deployed based on products and services imported from around the world, with U.S. and Europe in particular..

By: micfo.com

micfo.com — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:23:25 +0000

China seems trying to dictate people to use their own product and services and trying to develop their own network cutting off from world.

By: Chinawhite

Chinawhite — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 10:46:53 +0000

I recently watched a BBC film ON YOUTUBE form China entitled “The Corporation” and it reinforced y belief that massive censorship in the US exists though mostly driven by special interest groups and corporate advertisers. Monsanto for example can,and has, manipulated investigative reporting and blocked facts from getting into the media by threatening to pull ad dollars from newspapers and TV stations–among hundreds of large-budget companies–that would save lives! Google is well known to the gay blogging community for unfair adjudication of standards when it comes to adwords account approvals and we know them here in China to be a partner and advocate of censorship as long as currency, American or Chinese, is involved.
When Yahoo! put an Internet activist in prison by rolling over and giving up his private communications to Beijing without even the hint of a fight many Americans here on Techcrunch, instead of blasting Yahoo, called for a general boycott of Chinese products to force China to clean up its human rights act…
These were voices from the same country that has kids imprisoned without benefit of counsel in Guantanamo,two wars ongoing for oil, and instead of individual registrations on the Internet and 30,000 Internet cops, pays untold numbers of law enforcement personnel to surf the Internet and pose as little children and pedophiles (meeting each other a lot in dark parking lots) to keep people safe from government defined standards of morality.
YouTube was censored here during the party congress and then unblocked shortly thereafter. The Chinese government must agree with American Corporate Blogging Guru Debbie Weil who doesn’t think “live blogging” of an event is a safe practice for industry and she advocated the same in public when Sina.com refused to be interviewed at Beijing’s AdTech conference by a blogger. Crawl HER frame boys!
Any kid in school here can tell you how to find and download a YouTube video to their desktop as a mp4 file even if the site is blocked. 18,000 violent protests by Chinese citizens made it clear last year that censorship and too much government will probably have less of a future in China than say in Australia aye mates?
If every person who comments negatively about China on this thread would send $100 to Bloggers Without Borders or donate some computer space to one of the Anti-Great Firewall Projects I could almost accept their ethnocentric crap. Get the mote out of your own eyes before you make judgments about splinters (that have not even been created yet–YouTube is alive and well for now) in a country you know little about.

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 10:45:41 +0000

I agree with mr.silencewolf. Those companies are pretty heavily funded and it’ll be interesting to see what happens to them.

By: Gus

Gus — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 10:07:03 +0000

Maybe Hu Jintao and Kevin Rudd can hold a Sino-Australian summit on how to stop their respective populations looking at naughty videos.

By: adi

adi — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 10:01:50 +0000

Youku.com, Ku6.com, 6.cn, 56.com,ouou.com, Tudou.com, is youtobe clone? what china need is child seminar program for each of their civiliant. ?? http://www.bwm-financial.com

By: adi

adi — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 10:00:47 +0000

Youku.com, Ku6.com, 6.cn, 56.com,ouou.com, Tudou.com, is youtobe clone? what china need is child seminar program for each of their civiliant. ?? http//www.bwm-financial.com

By: China en contra de las webs que alojan videos :

China en contra de las webs que alojan videos : — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 09:33:37 +0000

[...] China han lanzado una nueva normativa que entrará en vigor a partir del 31 de enero, que las webs que tienen alojados videos deben ser del estado o en su defecto estar controlados por el estado, para de esta manera evitar que se publiquen videos que involucran secretos nacionales, lastimar la reputación de China, perturba la estabilidad social o promover la pornografía. [...]

By: Christine

Christine — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 09:27:03 +0000

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, it’s common knowledge that China maintains control over all areas of media in the country. Coming out with regulations on video sharing sites is no different. You currently need an ISSN number for print publications. You need an ICP number for your websites. All traditional television and radio is state-owned. It makes sense that they’d bring video sharing sites into the loop.

Does this mean we’ll be seeing nothing but state sponsored Commie propoganda coming out of China via the internet. Um, no. It just likely means that companies in this space will need to apply for a permit and stay clear of content related to porn, religion, politics (which they already do anyways).

Get real people. Some of you talk like CNN Lou Dobbs groupies. Propoganda goes both ways. I spent 5 years in China correcting stupid misconceptions many Chinese have about Americans based on the idiots in our capitol and white house. And 3 years back on the ground in the US and all I’ve come back to are reruns of different variations of the same xenophobic Panda punching stories. It would be nice if people formulated their own opinions based on a remote interest in having a more balanced viewpoint.

Yes. The country is Communist. It regulates its media. It’s been that way since 1949. Hello? What’s new here. It’s funny how people outside of China are making a bigger deal out of this than those in China who are used to working within and around the grey areas. I worked for a multinational TV shopping company during a time when both retail sector and of course TV were off limits for foreign companies to invest in. It doesn’t stop business from happening there.

By: Cat Chen

Cat Chen — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 09:15:09 +0000

Some video hosting site said that, “it’s just a little problem of cost increase”. Sure! We have a really *free* market here in China, within which you can buy whatever you want, including guanxi with a state-owned organization.

By: dc

dc — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 09:14:36 +0000

2008 is 1984