China Requiring You To Submit Photo ID To The Gov't If You Want To Create A Website
from the that'll-work dept
This isn’t really a surprise given China’s massive internet censorship (“Great Firewall”) efforts, but apparently the Chinese government is now requiring anyone who wants to set up a website in the country to submit their identity cards and photos of themselves before they can build a site. Oh yeah, plus they have to meet with gov’t regulators to get approval to register and set up a website. In other words, the crackdown is spreading… though plenty of folks in China appear to be getting around these new rules by setting up websites outside of China. In the meantime, what a way to kill the sort of entrepreneurial web spirit you need: imagine how many internet sites would never get created if they first required approval by a government bureaucrat?
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Comments on “China Requiring You To Submit Photo ID To The Gov't If You Want To Create A Website”
Good Lord!
It’s like Italy, there!
China, I am dissapoint.
Don't worry COMING SOON TO YOU
ya know how them corporations all lied about changing china to be more democratic…looks to me like other way around
makes ya wonder don’t it.
takes picture a my ass and hands it over
The BBC story is startlingly short on details. I wonder how the Chinese government will define “start a website”, since that’s such an extremely nebulous term. Third party blog tools? Facebook? Twitter? Shared google docs? Message boards? Which of these and under what circumstances constitutes starting a web site? What if I serve content from a port other than 80? What if it’s plain text and not html? Is that still a “web” site?
I expect it’s just a tool that they’ll use as a pretext to throw “dissidents” in jail for posting comments on youtube, rather than clarifying and then adhering to the actual text of the law.
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I beleive by “start a website” they mean, register a domain name.
We have to tame this here wild western-like internet and what better place to start than China!
Apply for website
Maybe its a good thing, then that country will only have one ” hello Kitty” type fan site.
Where is that SarcMark when I need it.
Now for the US
You know, every time the Chinese government does something like this, it seems that the US gov’t gets jealous and tries to find a way to do something similar.
At least they are open about it.
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/_improper_use_of_copyright.php
Microsoft on the other hand, cooperates fully with the law enforcement agents and even have a “spy manual” 🙂
Yeah… totally shocking. This IS China and all.
Australia is probably taking notes.
I think that this is a good idea… this will stop some of the bs spam and malware sites and make people responsible for the content they have online
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so?
and just imagine how few people would drive cars if they had to apply to the government and show a valid ID.
Re: so?
and just imagine if web sites had anything in common with cars.
interesting...
I actually like the idea of showing your ID to register domain name. I know folks hates it when a “goverment” controls the Internet, but this allows more accountablity on domain name.
I’m interested in hearing more pros and cons.
So… they could use the web and create one in India…
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Thats kind of insane really, imagine if I had to register all my domains using a photo i.d.? That would be impossible as sometimes you purchase a domain name and don’t want your real name associated with it, like a social media page or the like. This site Enclosed Car Transport was purchased from the original owner, and would be detrimental to the business to have the downtime it would create if you had to show I.D. to register a domain
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I beleive by “start a website” they mean, register a domain name.
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