China fast forwards censorship; requires prescreening of online videos

Herdict Blog 2012-07-16

Summary:

China has announced changes to its online video content regulation.  The changes require sites that host online videos to pre-screen user-posted content for material “that is deemed inappropriate.”  China’s State Administration of Radio Film and Television (SARFT) issued an official notice of the policy change on July 9. According to Huffington Post, these changes were [...]

Link:

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/herdict/2012/07/16/china-fast-forwards-censorship-requires-prescreening-of-online-videos/

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Tags:

uncategorized video censorship china sarft

Authors:

Cale Guthrie Weissman

Date tagged:

07/16/2012, 18:12

Date published:

07/16/2012, 09:30