China Law Blog

I always try to survey the blogosphere before writing a post on anything. I do this both for research purposes and to make sure I am not just repeating what others have already said. Rebecca McKinnon, who knows as much about China's internet as anyone alive, so entirely beat me to today's post idea, and did such a damn good job at it to boot, that there is little point in my doing anything beyond referring you to her post and telling you that I agree with it 100%.

The article is entitled,"China's new online video regulation: reading the tea leaves," and if you are interested in the likely impact of the new regulations limiting online video, you have to read Ms. McKinnon's article and follow her excellent links. How's that for not repeating?

Update: The Danwei blog just came out with a great post on this same issue, with links to the new regulations in both Chinese and English and to an excellent Kaiser Kuo post. Mr. Kuo's take is that these new regulations are "more about holding these video sharing and P2P companies responsible for naughty content than about trying to shake- or shut down the industry." All Roads Lead To China also has a post, entitled, "Are We About to Lose Youtube?" nicely summarizing the new law and describing its likely impact.

Update: David Wolf, one of the very few people in the same league as Rebecca McKinnon when it comes to knowledge of China's internet has a post, entitled, "Telegraph: The Video Clampdown", in which he too says, essentially, worry not.