MODS: Heads up! China to require Internet domain name regist

[klonk]

I don't know if this is a problem or an imaginary concern, for sites outside China. Anyway, it's something new.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091222/wr_nm/us_china_internet_1

http://www.miit.gov.cn/

The rules did not specify whether the new measure applies to overseas websites, but local media reported the risk that overseas sites that have not registered could also be blocked.

"If some legal foreign websites could not be logged onto because they haven't registrated with MIIT, it would be a pity for the Internet, which is meant to connect the whole world," the Beijing News said on Tuesday.

[Darth Rock&Roll]

If anything, the internet will be torn down in pieces and served up like television.

It's been underway since the advent of web 2.0

You were expecting total freedom? Ha! there's a saying, "Some men prove they are more free by rattling their chains the loudest."

There is no such thing as freedom, unless you use the word "death" instead. The dead, are free.

[qiphlow]

or maybe the dead are powering the internet.

[ashe]

i believe we're already blocked by the PRC and our friends in china visit via proxy servers anyway.

[Michael]

I've never had any problems with RSF or previous variants from within Guangzhou. Don't need a proxy for rumsoakedfist.org, but I do for youtube.com, epochtimes.com, etc.