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Mikael Forsberg
Feb 20, 2016, 8:45:50 PM2/20/16
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http://qz.com/620076/beijing-is-banning-all-foreign-media-from-publishing-online-in-china/
Beijing is banning all foreign media from publishing online in China
This article was updated with additional analysis of what the new rules
may mean, and information about foreign investment in China.
In the latest sign that China’s long-touted “opening up” is reversing
into a “closing down,” a Chinese ministry has issued new rules that ban
any foreign-invested company from publishing anything online in China,
effective next month.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology’s new rules (link in
Chinese) could, if they were enforced as written, essentially shut down
China as a market for foreign news outlets, publishers, gaming
companies, information providers, and entertainment companies starting
on March 10. Issued in conjunction with the State Administration of
Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (SARFT), they set strict
new guidelines for what can be published online, and how that publisher
should conduct business in China.
“Sino-foreign joint ventures, Sino-foreign cooperative ventures, and
foreign business units shall not engage in online publishing services,”
the rules state. Any publisher of online content, including “texts,
pictures, maps, games, animations, audios, and videos,” will also be
required to store their “necessary technical equipment, related servers,
and storage devices” in China, the directive says. Any “online
publication service units” needs to get prior approval from SARFT if
they want to cooperate on a project with any foreign company, joint
venture, or individual.
Foreign media companies including Thomson Reuters, Dow Jones, Bloomberg,
the Financial Times, and the New York Times have invested millions of
dollars—maybe even hundreds of millions collectively—in building up
China-based news organizations in recent years, and publishing news
reports in Chinese, for a Chinese audience. Many of these media outlets
are currently blocked in China, so top executives have also been
involved in months of behind-the-scenes negotiations to try to get the
blocks lifted.
Gaming companies including Sony PlayStation and Microsoft Xbox have been
making inroads in China with varying degrees of success, while social
media giants like Facebook are clamoring to get in—all drawn by the
country’s massive online population, estimated at nearly 700 million people.
But the new rules specify that, aside from approved projects, only 100%
Chinese companies will produce any content that goes online, and then
only after approval from Chinese authorities and the acquisition of an
online publishing license. The Chinese language version of China’s 2015
foreign investment handbook also prohibited foreign investment in
“network publishing services,” but the English-language version did not
(pdf, pg. 39), and that ban was little-noticed by foreign companies
looking to enter China.
Companies will then be expected to self-censor, and not publish any
information at all that falls into several broad categories, including:
harming national unity, sovereignty, and territorial integrity
disclosing state secrets, endangering national security, or harming
national honor and interests
inciting ethnic hatred or ethnic discrimination, undermining
national unity, or going against ethnic customs and habits
spreading rumors, disturbing social order, or undermining social
stability
insulting or slandering others, infringing upon the legitimate
rights of others
endangering social morality or national cultural tradition
Quartz contacted the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology
from Hong Kong asking for further clarification on how the rules would
work, but the ministry said it could only reply to faxed questions that
came from a reporter with a mainland press card.
While the new rules sound draconian, how effective they may be at
shutting foreign companies out of China’s internet entirely remains
questionable, You Yunting, an IP lawyer and partner at Shanghai’s Debund
Law Offices, told Quartz. The State Internet Information Office, under
“internet czar” Lu Wei, is actually in charge of internet policy in
China, he points out, but these rules were put out by the technology
ministry and SARFT. “Websites don’t even belong to their management,” he
said. Lu has been reaching out to foreign internet giants, including a
high-powered meeting in Seattle last September.
Scott Livingston, a Hong Kong-based lawyer specializing in Chinese
technology law, disagrees. “SARFT has many duties, but with respect to
the internet its main task is to regulate online audio and video
content, which includes administering the ‘License for Publication of
Audio-Visual Programs Through Information Networks,'” (link in Chinese)
he said. MIIT, the regulation’s other drafter, “is the nation’s
principal internet regulator and the primary body responsible for
licensing and registering Chinese websites.”
Even so, they will be tough to enforce, Ying Chan, the director of the
journalism program at the University of Hong Kong, told Quartz. “Using
rules of the print age to govern the internet does not work,” she said.
“How do you license media in an age when everyone could become a writer
and publisher? With these set of regulations, the government is fighting
both market forces and technology.”
Nonetheless, the rules are yet another indicator that under president Xi
Jinping, Beijing is moving to consolidate control, reduce foreign
influence, and wipe out any dissent in China.
Correction: An earlier version of this story listed the Associated Press
as one of the news outlets that publishes in Chinese for a Chinese
audience. An AP spokesperson clarified that it does not, but only
provides its content to third-party outlets, including Chinese ones.
http://qz.com/620076/beijing-is-banning-all-foreign-media-from-publishing-online-in-china/
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mediamonopol från att propagera krig och upplopp. Vi ser ju själva här i
Sverige också hur mainstream media (MSM) bara propagerar lögner och
tystar ner sanningen.
http://qz.com/620076/beijing-is-banning-all-foreign-media-from-publishing-online-in-china/
Beijing is banning all foreign media from publishing online in China
This article was updated with additional analysis of what the new rules
may mean, and information about foreign investment in China.
In the latest sign that China’s long-touted “opening up” is reversing
into a “closing down,” a Chinese ministry has issued new rules that ban
any foreign-invested company from publishing anything online in China,
effective next month.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology’s new rules (link in
Chinese) could, if they were enforced as written, essentially shut down
China as a market for foreign news outlets, publishers, gaming
companies, information providers, and entertainment companies starting
on March 10. Issued in conjunction with the State Administration of
Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (SARFT), they set strict
new guidelines for what can be published online, and how that publisher
should conduct business in China.
“Sino-foreign joint ventures, Sino-foreign cooperative ventures, and
foreign business units shall not engage in online publishing services,”
the rules state. Any publisher of online content, including “texts,
pictures, maps, games, animations, audios, and videos,” will also be
required to store their “necessary technical equipment, related servers,
and storage devices” in China, the directive says. Any “online
publication service units” needs to get prior approval from SARFT if
they want to cooperate on a project with any foreign company, joint
venture, or individual.
Foreign media companies including Thomson Reuters, Dow Jones, Bloomberg,
the Financial Times, and the New York Times have invested millions of
dollars—maybe even hundreds of millions collectively—in building up
China-based news organizations in recent years, and publishing news
reports in Chinese, for a Chinese audience. Many of these media outlets
are currently blocked in China, so top executives have also been
involved in months of behind-the-scenes negotiations to try to get the
blocks lifted.
Gaming companies including Sony PlayStation and Microsoft Xbox have been
making inroads in China with varying degrees of success, while social
media giants like Facebook are clamoring to get in—all drawn by the
country’s massive online population, estimated at nearly 700 million people.
But the new rules specify that, aside from approved projects, only 100%
Chinese companies will produce any content that goes online, and then
only after approval from Chinese authorities and the acquisition of an
online publishing license. The Chinese language version of China’s 2015
foreign investment handbook also prohibited foreign investment in
“network publishing services,” but the English-language version did not
(pdf, pg. 39), and that ban was little-noticed by foreign companies
looking to enter China.
Companies will then be expected to self-censor, and not publish any
information at all that falls into several broad categories, including:
harming national unity, sovereignty, and territorial integrity
disclosing state secrets, endangering national security, or harming
national honor and interests
inciting ethnic hatred or ethnic discrimination, undermining
national unity, or going against ethnic customs and habits
spreading rumors, disturbing social order, or undermining social
stability
insulting or slandering others, infringing upon the legitimate
rights of others
endangering social morality or national cultural tradition
Quartz contacted the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology
from Hong Kong asking for further clarification on how the rules would
work, but the ministry said it could only reply to faxed questions that
came from a reporter with a mainland press card.
While the new rules sound draconian, how effective they may be at
shutting foreign companies out of China’s internet entirely remains
questionable, You Yunting, an IP lawyer and partner at Shanghai’s Debund
Law Offices, told Quartz. The State Internet Information Office, under
“internet czar” Lu Wei, is actually in charge of internet policy in
China, he points out, but these rules were put out by the technology
ministry and SARFT. “Websites don’t even belong to their management,” he
said. Lu has been reaching out to foreign internet giants, including a
high-powered meeting in Seattle last September.
Scott Livingston, a Hong Kong-based lawyer specializing in Chinese
technology law, disagrees. “SARFT has many duties, but with respect to
the internet its main task is to regulate online audio and video
content, which includes administering the ‘License for Publication of
Audio-Visual Programs Through Information Networks,'” (link in Chinese)
he said. MIIT, the regulation’s other drafter, “is the nation’s
principal internet regulator and the primary body responsible for
licensing and registering Chinese websites.”
Even so, they will be tough to enforce, Ying Chan, the director of the
journalism program at the University of Hong Kong, told Quartz. “Using
rules of the print age to govern the internet does not work,” she said.
“How do you license media in an age when everyone could become a writer
and publisher? With these set of regulations, the government is fighting
both market forces and technology.”
Nonetheless, the rules are yet another indicator that under president Xi
Jinping, Beijing is moving to consolidate control, reduce foreign
influence, and wipe out any dissent in China.
Correction: An earlier version of this story listed the Associated Press
as one of the news outlets that publishes in Chinese for a Chinese
audience. An AP spokesperson clarified that it does not, but only
provides its content to third-party outlets, including Chinese ones.
http://qz.com/620076/beijing-is-banning-all-foreign-media-from-publishing-online-in-china/
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