China has issued new Internet regulations, including what appears to be an effort to create a "whitelist" of approved websites that could potentially place much of the Internet off-limits to Chinese readers.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Techonology ordered domain management institutions and Internet service providers to tighten control over domain name registration.
"Domain names that have not registered will not be resolved or transferred," it said, in the action plan to "further deepen" an anti-pornography campaign that has significantly tightened Internet controls.
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. China has also banned individuals from registering Websites ending in .cn, China's country code.
Maybe it would just be easier to ban the sale of computers altogether.
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