Alas, old news. MII has been providing this "encouragement" for at least three years, at least to aspiring foreign operators in China. Every foreign operator providing any open internet service in China has already signed on to this arrangement. TV 治大网路若烹小鮮 (Managing a great network is like cooking a small fish) On Jun 20, 2004, at 7:31 PM, Sean Donelan wrote:

'The basic principles of self-discipline for the Internet industry are patriotism, observance of the law, fairness and trustworthiness,' the official Xinhua news agency reported at the weekend.

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