p2pnet - rss feed: Tudou.com on blacklist
p2pnet news | Politics:- Popular Chinese video site Tudou.com has, “figured on the top” of a list of companies which have received an official government warning to, “curb pornographic, violent and political content”.
A second list, “ordered some lesser-known Web sites to cease operation and a third listed companies operating without a content licence,” says Reuters, going on:
“In China, an administrative punishment typically starts with a verbal warning, followed by a written warning, and eventually suspension of operations. China’s government, keen to avoid stoking social discontent, keeps a tight watch over the media and often blocks or censors popular Web sites and forums where dissent may brew.”
This echoes Beijing’s, “previous campaign to force Web sites to apply for Internet content licences, and may be a prelude to putting in place a system for standardising video content, industry watchers said,” according to the story, which adds:
“Some add they also expect a ‘whitelist’ of officially sanctioned sites to come out, “which foreign investors may see as safer investment targets”.
Industry insiders fear the move, “could scare away future investors in the sector,” states Reuters.
“Venture capital firms such as Sequoia, IDG (which backs Tudou) and Steamboat Ventures have poured into the Internet sector in China - by some estimates now the world’s biggest Web market - in search of the next YouTube.”
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Also See:
Reuters - China publishes “blacklist” of video Web sites, March 20, 2008
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March 21st, 2008 at 7:22 am
Why would anyone with half a brain invest anything in china?
March 21st, 2008 at 11:26 am
” government, keen to avoid stoking social discontent, keeps a tight watch over the media and often blocks or censors popular Web sites and forums where dissent may brew.”
Think that can’t or won’t start happening aroung the globe?
Think again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“Industry insiders fear the move, “could scare away future investors in the sector,” states Reuters.”
We can only hope.
March 21st, 2008 at 1:57 pm
‘tater net kinda sucks, anyway, as everything is split into a bajillion parts…
March 22nd, 2008 at 3:37 am
Tudou rocks. I use it for all my tv shows, movies etc. I hope they keep operating.