China limits providers of Internet video
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China has decided to restrict the broadcasting of Internet videos Â including those posted on video-sharing Web sites Â to sites run by state-controlled companies and require providers to report questionable content to the government.
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Chinese authorities closed 44,000 websites last year in a campaign against internet pornography, state media says.
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China will allow only state-run Web sites to broadcast video or radio through the Internet, tightening the governmentâs regulatory grip over the media content offered there.
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China is ready to enforce a new law limiting video sharing to state-owned companies, but regulators will probably look the other way in order not to screw up private business.
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Between February and August of this year, China has shut down 1,600 internet cafes, and handed out 100 million yuan fines (US$12 million) to cafe operators, for allowing children access to violent or adult-only content and games.
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China is shutting down about 200 Web  sites for carrying illegal sex-drug advertisements, state media  said on Wednesday, the latest in a string of measures to clean  up the Internet.
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The Internet in China is not as  restricted as sometimes believed in the West, with most  controls actually coming from sites practicing self-censorship,  an academic who studies the Chinese Web said on Thursday.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Beijing, 15 September: Chinese police authorities shut down more than 320 illegal web sites and Internet columns and deleted 15,000 items of hazardous information from Internet from September 6 to 8.
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Chinese authorities have between February and August of this year closed 1,600 Internet bars. In additional fines amounting to a total of 100 million yuan (9.
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China on Sunday announced detailed controls on the distribution of news by foreign news agencies, banning all content that violates its own tight media restrictions.
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SAN MATEO, Calif. -- The promise of Internet-based video has long been hamstrung by copyright and piracy worries, slow dial-up connections, technical challenges, and consumer disdain for watching blotchy videos on their home computers.
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In a digital arms race, China's Internet controls might be used for more than censorship.
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Yang Zhou is no cyberdissident, but recent curbs on his Web surfing habits by China's censors have him fomenting discontent about China's "Great Firewall".
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Internet access could be cut for people who illegally download music and videos  under government proposals.
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A furious China has shut down over 1,600 Internet cafes and arrested people in a bid to curb the menace of content which is harmful to public morality.
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Foreign media will be free to travel   around China and enjoy uncensored access to the Internet during   the 2008 Beijing Olympics, organizers said on Wednesday.
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China is cracking down on music sites. Really.