The CANDIS Blog

Well, the thing is, in China, you have to have a licence to have a website, called an ICP. It costs money if you are commercial, even more money if an e-commerce site, as well as a bank deposit with a certain amount of registered capital. For non commercial entities it is free and no capital is required. The whole idea is that it is there to keep things (sites and content) legal. The original intent of this system was that only sites with a ICP would work. Now any site will work and if audited and no ICP is found, you are taken down by order of the government if you don’t acquire one somewhat expediently.

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OK, so I want to use Flickr for some photos. No sooner had I worked out a simple yet effective plan to allow me to actually use Flickr in China, then I am stone walled by Yahoo.

It seems that you need a Yahoo ID to use Flickr. And no matter how or where I click to sign up for Yahoo, be it .com.au or .com or .com.hk, I get redirected to the China site…. what Yaahoo?? Only Chinese speaking people live in China?

BTW, I could sign up with Yahoo in Australia, I have the technical ability to forge packets and spoof IP’s and make that happen. However that is not the point. Even google offers an “in English” link on their page for all other languages when you connect