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China has decided to restrict the broadcasting of World Wide Web videos — including those posted on video-sharing Web sites — to sites run by state-controlled companies and require providers to report questionable subject matter to the government.

It wasn’t immediately clear how the new rules would affect YouTube

and other providers of Web video that host Web sites available in China but are based in other countries.

The new regulations, which take effect Jan. 31, were approved by both the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television and the Ministry of knowledge Industry and were described on their Web sites Thursday.

Under the new policy, Web sites that supply video programming or allow users […]

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