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China Internet Authority Formalizes Regulations For Live-Streaming Industry (reuters.com)

Posted by msmash on from the china-and-its-rules dept.

Chinese internet authorities have formalized controversial rules regulating the country's fast-growing live-streaming video industry, in a move that strips out smaller competitors and places hard-line surveillance measures on leading firms. Reuters reports:In an announcement posted on their website on Friday, the Cyberspace Administration of China grouped a handful of earlier restrictions under a final 24-point regulation that will come into effect on Dec. 1. The rules require streaming services to log user data and content for 60 days, and work with regulators to provide information on users who stream content that the government deems threatening to national security or social order. Both users and providers are punishable under the regulations. The law also codifies rules that ban online news broadcasting services from original reporting, requiring them to identify sources and non-selectively reproduce state-sanctioned information.

17 comments

  1. Hypocrites on Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Why do you complain vehemently about any alleged censorship in the US but not seem too bothered when Ching Ching does it? Don't they have an intrinsic right to freedom, too?

    1. Re:Hypocrites on Slashdot by Oswald+McWeany · · Score: 1

      It's terrible everywhere, but one kinda expects censorship in everything China. Not saying China censorship is more OK than American censorship just more expected.

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      "That's the way to do it" - Punch
    2. Re: Hypocrites on Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Why do you think that as long as we're not as bad as China that it's OK to censor?

      Less evil is still evil and not good.

    3. Re:Hypocrites on Slashdot by ilsaloving · · Score: 2

      Two reasons I can think of off the top of my head:
      1. It's hard to maintain smug superiority if there's no "villain" to point a finger at.
      2. This is a great distraction, who while being busy beating their chests over how evil China is, they don't notice the stuff happening locally.

    4. Re:Hypocrites on Slashdot by Tablizer · · Score: 2

      Show us how to go fix them.

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      Table-ized A.I.
    5. Re:Hypocrites on Slashdot by erapert · · Score: 2

      I say something when it happens in the US because I'm broadcasting the fact that my anger and/or disgust on that issue has incremented.
      My disdain and disgust for the totalitarian regime in China is already maxed out so there's no way to increment and therefore no need to broadcast.
      Censorship, by the way, is the very least of the Chinese regime's crimes against humanity.

  2. Internet strippers by fubarrr · · Score: 1

    Internet strippers will have to register with the party general secrerary office.

    1. Re: Internet strippers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

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  3. If I were... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    If I were running one of the major video streaming companies, I would be announcing that all service to China would cease at midnight on Nov 30 because of these regulations which amount to censorship and worse!

    1. Re:If I were... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      oh you mean all the ones that dont serve China anyway? because thats all of them
      theres so much piracy and free alternatives there that nobody can break into the market with paid option
      also I preorderd space hulk based on that last trailer they showed

  4. Delicate Flower by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    who stream content that the government deems threatening to national security or social order

    See, the Chinese society is like a delicate flower, always in the danger of being ripped to pieces by wind, by thought and by word. A robust society doesn't have to worry about such trivialities, although it might not be as pretty and poetic.

    1. Re:Delicate Flower by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Black lives matter.
      etc etc.

  5. You're not by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    China has more people on the internet than America has people.
    Well done giving up that market and allowing the Chinese to have it all to themselves. You sure showed them.

    We can see why you're not running a video company.