Asia
Report: China's Provisions on the Administration of Internet Audio and Video Programming Services
Unofficial translation of China's "Provisions on the Administration of Internet Audio and Video Programming Services" issued by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) and the Ministry of Information Industry of the People’s Republic of China on...
ONI Blog: Tibet, China and the information gaps between
Despite the approaching Olympic Games, it should come as no surprise to most observers of China that information about the spreading protests in Tibet (Autonomous Region) and other far western provinces is subject to vigorous censorship. YouTube enables certain actors actors to...
ONI Blog: YouTube and the rise of geolocational filtering
YouTomb, a project of the MIT Free Culture group that studies takedown notices by the video-sharing website YouTube, has identified a mechanism used by Google to restrict video content in specific countries. This appears to be the method YouTube...
ONI Blog: Pakistan’s Internet has a bad weekend
This was a dark weekend for the Internet community in Pakistan. A series of unfortunate events started with an order for ISPs to block YouTube in Pakistan, which naturally riled citizens and advocates of free speech. Making things worse, the implementation...
ONI Blog: Lawsuit initiated over shutdown of Chinese BBS on Hepatitis-B Virus
On November 20, 2007, the Beijing Communications Administration (BCA) ordered the closure of a popular Internet forum on the Hepatitis B virus (HBV). The Hepatitis B Camp Network of China [?????? ] (http://hbvhbv.com/) was started in September 2001 and has...
ONI Blog: A Chinese rebellion against Internet censorship?
As severe weather conditions have paralyzed great swaths of China’s physical infrastructure in some of the worst timing imaginable, the New York Times has published a story about “increasingly determined social resistance” in Chinese cyberspace. According to Howard French, once...
ONI Blog: Possibilities for Internet regulation in Japan
At the end of last year, Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications released a report outlining recommendations for the control of Internet content. In an effort to curb the availability of a range of undesirable content, the report...
- Posted on 16/Jan/2008; tagged in Asia
ONI Blog: Update: China incentivizes self-censorship in regulation of online video
ONI has completed an unofficial English translation of China's new regulations of online audio/video, available here....
ONI Blog: China incentivizes self-censorship in regulation of online video
The latest ‘innovation’ in Chinese legal regulation of the Internet targets online audio and video content. Effective January 31, 2008, the Provisions for the Management of Internet Audio and Video Programming Services build on previous Measures issued by broadcast media...
ONI Blog: Media Jumping from TV to Internet
In May of this year, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez decided not to renew TV station RCTV's license, and troops seized the station's equipment.
In Pakistan, President Musharraf ordered some TV stations to be shut down in June, and an apparent...
