Blog Registration Mandatory in China

• By theWHIR.com , June 07, 2005

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June 7, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Chinese authorities have ordered all private Weblogs and Web sites to register with the government or face fines and closure, reports say.

Weblog and site operators are required to register their full identity. Failure to company with the new regulations before June 30, 2005 could result in fines of up to one million Yuan ($120,000).

According to reports, the information industry ministry will monitor sites in real time and search for their registration numbers. Unregistered sites will immediately be reported.

The government says 74 percent of all sites have been registered.

Major commercial Web sites in China are all registered with the government and operators are responsible for the content on their sites. But blogs and private Web sites, which can be fertile ground for political dissent, have been harder to police. According to Chinese blog hosting provider cnblog.org, China has around 700,000 Weblogs.

The Chinese government is well known for its hard line on political dissent, which has extended to the Internet. But while China has complete control over public media, it has lagged behind in its ability to limit the Internet due in large part to its failure to keep up with the pace of technological change.

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