China unlikely to become huge Intranet

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology makes a rule

[weeks]

These people think they are Google or something?

According to Forbes, "China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released regulations, dated Dec. 15, requiring the registration of all Web sites."

But, they note...

"Will Beijing actually implement the new measures as promulgated? At first glance, that would seem unlikely. "What usually happens when suddenly compiled rules appear without warning is that they are rarely enforced," says Kaiser Kuo, a respected Internet analyst in Beijing. "My gut reaction is that this is yet another of those cases."

[forbes.com...]

[bill]

China has been registering websites [webmasterworld.com] for years. This looks like an effort to influence the internet outside China as well.