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China Set To Ban All Foreign Media From Publishing Online (independent.co.uk)

Posted by yaelk on from the who-would-have-thought dept.

schwit1 writes: A new directive issued by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has said that companies which have foreign ownership (at least, in part) will be stopped from publishing words, pictures, maps, games, animation and sound of an 'informational and thoughtful nature' unless they have approval from the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television.

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  1. Re:Will Slashdot be affected? by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 5, Informative

    Will Slashdot be affected by this? Will it no longer be accessible in China?

    Slashdot is accessible in China, always has been, and will likely continue to be. This law only affects material hosted in China. The Chinese government doesn't care much about material published in English, unless it is overtly political.

    If Slashdot started supporting utf8, so that people could post in Chinese, the situation might change. But we all know that will never happen.