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[FYI] (Fwd) FC: UK regulator wants to create new Web addresses; Chin
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- Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 19:12:26 +0100
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Date sent: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 09:15:39 -0500
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From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Subject: FC: UK regulator wants to create new Web addresses; China CEO intv
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http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,34937,00.html
UK Wants Tighter E-Trading Laws
by Declan McCullagh (declan@wired.com)
3:00 a.m. 14.Mar.2000 PST
FAIRFAX, Virginia -- It's not that Phillip
Thorpe hates the Internet, not exactly. But he
sure wishes the problems it causes him would
vanish as quickly as Bill Bradley's
presidential ambitions.
Thorpe has one of the most difficult jobs
anyone can hold nowadays: He's a regulator.
And not just any regulator, but the head of
the British agency responsible for overseeing
the financial services and securities
industries.
In the U.K., London-based Financial
Services Authority can shut down any
unacceptable Web site that doesn't
follow British law, but the agency's reach is
limited.
Thorpe is concerned that British subjects can
connect to any Web site anywhere in the world
to deposit money or spend their cash on risky
-- though perhaps profitable, and probably
unregulated - ventures. There's precious
little Thorpe or his FSA cohorts can do about
it.
...
Thorpe said a third possibility would be to
devise a new Web address for approved finance
and investment sites that would look like
finance://www.bankname.com/.
He said it would be a "specific kind of URL
for regulated financial entities, though we
know there are people we have to ask about
that."
...
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,34916,00.html
AOL Envy
by Declan McCullagh (declan@wired.com)
3:00 a.m. 14.Mar.2000 PST
FAIRFAX, Virginia -- Charles Zhang wants
to be China's equivalent of Steve Case.
The 35-year-old entrepreneur envisions
his company's portal, sohu.com, becoming
as synonymous with the Internet in the
world's most populous country as America
Online is in the world's most wired
country.
"I've always admired Steve Case," said
Zhang, an MIT graduate who lives in
Bejing. "Through all these years, when
AOL is up and down and people predict
AOL is going to fail, AOL is now king of
the hill."
...
For one thing, the Chinese government
isn't exactly known for its love of the
Internet and Western influences like
erotica -- or anything critical of Beijing.
...
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