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MIIT considers a white-list of approved websitesPosted by Joel Martinsen, December 22, 2009 1:31 PM
Last week, CNNIC announced that private individuals would no longer be allowed to register domain names. A business license is now required to obtain a domain name under China's ".cn" top-level domain. Today, The Beijing News reports on the full notice released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), which is framed as a campaign against the proliferation of pornography on mobile devices. The MIIT notice lists five measures for domain name management: 1. Set up a blacklist to prevent the owners of domain names found to be in violation from applying for additional domain names. 2. Tighten registration procedures to ensure that all application documents are accurate. Transfer of a domain name requires that a new application be resubmitted. 3. Unregistered domain names will not be resolved:
4. Suspension of DNS service to violating websites and to any other domain names in the possession of the same domain name holder. 5. Overhaul of registrars: CNNIC has already taken action against three service providers: Zhengzhou Dahuang Network Development Company, Beijing Xinnet Digital Information Technology Company, and Beijing Blinux Network Technology Company. In the past, China's Internet minders have explained that they block foreign websites that are pornographic or otherwise harmful (although many blocked websites do not fall into these categories). If carried out, the new MIIT measures will effectively set up a white-list of accessible sites. Any overseas website that does not make the effort to file paperwork with a Chinese government agency (or does not realize it needs to) will find itself cut off from mainland China. The Beijing News hints at the repercussions of these measures, point #3 in particular:
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Comments on MIIT considers a white-list of approved websites
Not just overseas porno and excess polit-talk will go... no, now it's everything. The New York Subway. Le Monde. Spiegel. NZZ. Swisscom and the Swiss Post. OM#G... I'm a Swiss citizen... do we have to force Bern to talk to Beijing to make sure admin.ch, which is where the Swiss embassy in China's web page is located, does not get harmonized?
International incident...
Count me as extremely skeptical of MIIT's ability to accept, process, and manage a tidal wave of applications from overseas websites.
Like Green Dam, this seems like such an outrageous overstep that we can expect that they'll probably back up on it before too long.
It's too bad so many of you were forced to go work as enablers in China. Shame, really... I suppose you'll fume quietly in protest?
Oh well, as long as the dosh is good, what does it matter, eh lads?
They can keep trying all they want. The more they do it, the more we proliferate pornography. I'm not saying that out of spite, that's really what happens. Chinese people are masters of piracy and getting what we want, you'd think the government would know better.
Since we're on the topic of porn and all, are Chinese porn sites full of adwares, spywares, malwares, viruses, etc...? You know... like it is here in the States. Well, that's what I heard. ;) Just curious...
We don't distribute porn on "sites". Most porn is linked to download sites (similar to rapidshare) from disussion forums that need registration. And eMule. Lots of porn on eMlue.