{"id":360854,"date":"2010-02-24T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T02:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100224\/0322068287.shtml"},"modified":"2010-02-24T21:50:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T02:50:00","slug":"china-requiring-you-to-submit-photo-id-to-the-govt-if-you-want-to-create-a-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/360854","title":{"rendered":"China Requiring You To Submit Photo ID To The Gov&#8217;t If You Want To Create A Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t really a surprise given China&#8217;s massive internet censorship (&#8220;Great Firewall&#8221;) efforts, but apparently the Chinese government is now <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/asia-pacific\/8530378.stm\" >requiring anyone who wants to set up a website in the country to submit their identity cards and photos of themselves<\/a> before they can build a site.  Oh yeah, plus they have to meet with gov&#8217;t regulators to get approval to register and set up a website.  In other words, the crackdown is spreading&#8230; though plenty of folks in China appear to be getting around these new rules by setting up websites outside of China.  In the meantime, what a way to kill the sort of entrepreneurial web spirit you need: imagine how many internet sites would never get created if they first required approval by a government bureaucrat?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100224\/0322068287.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100224\/0322068287.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20100224\/0322068287&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=0e75ee2dd26404b95250394aba734acf&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=0e75ee2dd26404b95250394aba734acf&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2225\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=szG5U-KLMnA:jxawGY2s7w0:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=szG5U-KLMnA:jxawGY2s7w0:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=szG5U-KLMnA:jxawGY2s7w0:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/szG5U-KLMnA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t really a surprise given China&#8217;s massive internet censorship (&#8220;Great Firewall&#8221;) efforts, but apparently the Chinese government is now requiring anyone who wants to set up a website in the country to submit their identity cards and photos of themselves before they can build a site. Oh yeah, plus they have to meet with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}