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Three popular Chinese online video services have been temporarily shut down. They will likely reappear with "beefed-up oversight":
Beijing has shut down online video services of three popular Chinese media sites in a swift action that unleashed financial shockwaves and posed a firm warning to the country's online video industry: clean up, or close down.
China's internet shares tumbled after news of the unusually harsh clamp down spread, with Weibo Corp's down 6.1 percent, while SINA Corp, which has a stake in Weibo, fell 4.8 percent. That amounted to a combined $1.3 billion knock to the market value of both companies.
The Twitter-like service Sina Weibo, popular online video site ACFUN and news portal iFeng.com will have to stop video streaming services that violate the country's regulations, the TV and film watchdog said on Thursday.
"This will provide a clean and clear Internet space for the wide number of online users," the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television said in a brief statement on its website.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Beau Slim on Saturday June 24 2017, @03:02AM (2 children)
This matches my experience talking to PRC nationals as well. Their thinking goes along the lines of, "The law says that if you say something against the government, you go to jail or are executed. So, if you break that law, you deserve the consequences." The entire concept of unjust laws simply doesn't enter their minds. I found it very disturbing.
(Score: 2) by KGIII on Saturday June 24 2017, @03:25AM
They think we are the weird ones, more often than not.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 24 2017, @06:18AM
In this day of snooping/etc, can you really blame them from telling other people that - when they have no reason to believe you might not be someone hired from the government sent to test them, or someone not from the government that could use the evidence of dissent against them as blackmail? I doubt the concept eludes them, but perhaps the severity of the consequences eludes you? It's a reason why western countries should be fighting their similar fall into such harsh censorship environments least we find out we're doing the same simply because we want our kids to grow up knowing their parents.