Since the big meeting is approaching, the China’s Internet regulators launched campaigns against sensitive content, which may force thousands of websites in China to shut down, at least for several months.
Several weeks ago, two IDCs in Luoyang and Shantou were shut down completely by regulators respectively, all hosted server were disconnected from network, because “inappropriate content” were found on some servers hosted in the IDCs, the shutdown has affected thousands of websites. So in recent days, it is not surprised for you to find find a Chinese website unavailable and having an announcement on its homepage which said the IDC were shut down.
The situation is getting worse. IDCs in China are required to take self-discipline actions to close all BBSs, forums, Blogs, message boards or any kinds of interactive features in their hosted servers or virtual spaces, otherwise the whole IDCs may be closed completely. So if you want to start blogging, you may have to switch to a blogging service provider who has signed self-discipline pact, or to use a hosting service from abroad, such as Digital Nomads Project.
About one year ago, when I was asked how web 2.0 will affect the Internet regulations in China, I was still optimistic about it. But maybe I was wrong, now I’m very disappointed for all these happened.
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