More Censorship in China – Making It Harder For Domainers To Reach The Chinese Population
Posted on | January 2, 2010 | 1 Comment
There’s always a lot of controversy when it comes to China and the internet (‘Great Firewall’). We all know that the big boys like Google and Bing (November 20, 2009 Bing.com statement regarding Chinese searches) need to adapt to censorship laws in some countries such as China, but that doesn’t mean the average-Joe in China always “follows the rules”. These make it much harder for domainers to monetize Chinese traffic due to there being many restrictions on the type of content that can be fed without getting your site blocked.
There are major repercussions when rules aren’t followed:
Chinese authorities caught nearly 5,400 suspects last year in a crackdown on online pornography and have vowed to strengthen Internet policing.
And more…
The ministry said nearly 9,000 pornographic Web sites have been deleted from the Internet and 5,394 suspects captured in 2009, although it did not say how many of them were formally arrested or charged.
Always something I keep my eye out for since there are different opportunities to target such a huge and developing population. The problem is there is much more leg work that needs to be done in order to do this properly and I’ve chit-chatted with some people that have been trying to monetize the Chinese web-space. It isn’t easy from what I understand, but it is definitely rewarding if you have the knowledge and experience. I’ve tried, and failed miserably. Again, these censorship laws are hard to get by, especially when it has been mentioned that some domain parking companies such as Namedrive parking pages are blocked in China due to their firewall.
Examples of censorship in China:
tiananmen square – Google.com
tiananmen square – Google.cn
The point of this post? Awareness. Awareness of both the situation in China regarding their internet as well as opportunity.
Tags: bing > censorship > china > chinese censorship > chinese internet > google > great firewall
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August 29th, 2010 @ 1:00 am
Always something I keep my eye out for since there are different opportunities to target such a huge and developing population. The problem is there is much more leg work that needs to be done in order to do this properly and I’ve chit-chatted with some people that have been trying to monetize the Chinese web-space. It isn’t easy from what I understand