In the article China Clamps Down on Net Video, new restrictions on video-sharing are discussed. These are restrictions that China is placing on online-video. The aim is to encourage the domains of education and business and dissuade videos that may be less than glorifying to the political domain.
In fact, one such incident did occur to spur the onset of these tighter restrictions, the details of which are available in the article mentionned above. The anxiety seems to surround the light in which China wants to be seen for the upcoming Olympic Games this summer.
China is one of the top countries to participate in the domain of online-video viewing. The industry is in full swing and continually growing. Regulators, it seems, will have a tough job as they are aware of the breadth and growth of this domain and are not keen to impede it. It becomes problematic because private operators have always been allowed to censor their own sites, and the subject of who will regulate now does not yet seem to be resolved. What are the consequences of the media falling under the control of the Chinese state? Leaders of video-sharing websites are not commenting much yet, but the control of the spread and availability of information always has unpredictable consequences.
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