Beijing, China: Communist leaders are tightening censorship rules on sites such as Tudou.com, 56.com and Youku.com. These sites contain mainly UGC (User Generated Content) and regulators are afraid of the implications of this new medium on government regulation. The rise in popularity of UGC has come to rival traditional news mediums in popularity and is potentially devastating to the government's ability to control what their people see.
Chinese regulators are experiencing difficulty in keeping up with the freedom of the web. Over 210 million Chinese citizens are online, a number that rivals the number of US internet users, and the government can no longer control everything that is uploaded or published on the web. To overcome this obstacle, they created the Internet Society of China to license only sites owned by Chinese nationals. The Gobe and Mail article "China Clamps Down on Net video" outlines these new policies. Many international website owners have overcome the challenge posed by transferring ownership of their sites to their Chinese correspondents.
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