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Beijing Administration Released Regulations on Microblogs

Beijing Municipal government announced Regulations of Microblog Development today. Micrblogging websites in Beijing city administrative area and their users should comply with the regulations. The regulation requires microblog users to register their identities with authorities and forbids creating fake Weibo accounts.

Top 10 Websites for Pirated Content

China Enterprise Evaluation Association, part of Development Research Center of the State Council, released a White Paper on Intellectual Property Rights. This whitepaper shows top 10 websites on pirated content: Baidu.com Baidu Post Bar (tieba.baidu.com) Baidu Wenku (wenku.baidu.com) book520.net www.booksky.org feiku.com 16kbook.com kenshuge.com SoDu.org soso999.com (this site is not accessible at the moment) Three Baidu [...]

Guide: Website Visibility in China

A friend asked me a few questions the other day regarding website visibility in China, which I was asked before. So, I think writing a post on this topic could benefit more people who face similar problems. .CN Chinese Domain Registration If you want to register a China Country code top level domain (ccTLD), .CN [...]

China tightens rules on Internet cafes

Cybercafes in China that admit three or more underage patrons will have their licences revoked under the government’s latest effort to tighten controls on web access in the world’s largest online market. The measure will also be applied to establishments that give rise to “major malignant cases” through admitting any number of underage customers — [...]

China Web Sites Seeking Users’ Names

via NYTimes.com: News Web sites in China, complying with secret government orders, are requiring that new users log on under their true identities to post comments, a shift in policy that the country’s Internet users and media have fiercely opposed in the past.

Song of the Grass-Mud Horse: An Icon of Resistance to Censorship

According to the New York Times, “The Grass-Mud Horse” is a mythical creature whose name in Chinese sounds like “fuck your mother”. These horses face a problem: invading river crabs that are devouring their grassland. In spoken Chinese, river crab sounds very much like harmony, which in Chinas cyberspace has become a synonym for censorship. [...]