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China Proposes Foreign Domain Name Censorship (thestack.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A new draft law in China could potentially increase domain name restrictions, limiting domestic access to foreign websites. The measures outlined in the 'Internet Domain Name Management Rules' remain unclear, yet they suggest a marked effort to increase censorship on online content. The proposals, released for public comment by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, seek to update existing regulations to censor any domain names not registered within China. Only domain names approved by authorities would be permitted while other names registered outside of China would be blocked automatically.
Ever wonder if not being able to access foreign websites even affects the average Chinese person? At all?
I block all .cn dommains and GeopIP block all of China, so fair's fair. I guess.
"censor any domain names not registered within China"
So what, only 99% of the internet then?
they obviously don't want to be part of the world eCommunity, so block all of .cn elsewhere.
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
if chinese do this, they will do it knowing that whatever and whoever has anything of value in internet of use to china, that does not threaten them, will eagerly start registering themselves within in china, obediently complying with rules chinese have laid down.
all of the western corps who want to survive and make money will do that
that is power.
When everyone wants to tell everyone else what they can and can't say and see on the internet.
Get in line, China.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
The rest of the world would be better off if we would just disconnect China from the internet! They don't like an open internet then we should not have to give them one. This would eliminate a major group of corporate and government hackers.
If there is an Internet Doomsday Clock, I'd say it reads about three 'til midnight.
Everywhere you look, on every continent, freedom and privacy are being hunted down, borne upon the cynical horns of terrorism and pederasty.
The more you tighten your grip, the more websites will slip through your fingers!
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I can only imagine that this would greatly increase the usage of VPN's..... also GNAA
So then all someone would need to do is manage a downloadable host file to bypass DNS and continue pointing to the IP addresses of valid servers. Sure it might be a pain in the ass to manage, but there would be no need to rely on "authorized" domains. Your authorization would come from you explicitly allowing it in your own local naming service.
China has a history of building walls to keep foreign people or things out. Old habits die hard.
Table-ized A.I.
That won't work if the firewall drops connections to foreign IPs that have not been returned from a DNS query. When you perform a DNS query, the DNS server would then do three things: check whether the domain is on China's whitelist, return the hostname's IP address if so, and create a whitelist entry on the firewall for the pair of (your IP address, their IP address) if so. It's thus a little bit like carrier-grade NAT, except that DNS lookups are used as the trigger instead of a SYN.
Or perhaps I shouldn't have given the Chinese leadership any ideas...
Why is this not permitted?
I helped build your telephone system back in the 90s, China, and I was one of your first IPO investors in many advanced research firms in Hong Kong, but you won't permit that?
What gives?
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It looks like a new China Wall, history is useless.
* Register domain that China government hates
* China-based script-kiddies can't get to me
* ???
* PROFIT by being able to focus my security infrastructure on more serious security threats (like the Chinese-government-trained/sponsored industrial-espionage-hackers???) instead of wasting time swatting the script kiddies that happen to be in China.
Now if only it was that easy to get rid of the script-kiddie problem worldwide.
I know! I'll use a Martian IP address!!!
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All the Chinese government will accomplish with this sort of thing is the dumbing down of their citizenry putting them behind the west in the Great Competition they desire so much to excel at. Sad. Go for it.
Of course this is an effort to prevent domain names like freetibet.com appearing to the Chinese population, but the (unintended) consequence of the development is dividing the Chinese values from those of the rest of the world and so preparing them to view the whole world as the enemy for the coming war. They will become just like ISIS.
I expect this is as much about protectionism for domestic Internet sites/businesses as it it about some futile effort at information control
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What is that? A euphemism for the "Ministry of Truth"?
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Better title for this article:
"China develops more accurate online method of shooting itself in the foot."
Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?
Seriously, this is just like trade right now. China controls carefully what is allowed in to compete. In addition, if it is something that china wants the manufacturing tech to, they put up large import tariffs against your good and then requires you to 'partner' with a chinese owned company.
China continues to set up the situation so that they can sell outside of china, but from outside, can not sell INTO china.
At this point, WTO should step up and say no. BUT, they will not.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
China has no ministry of truth, you must be confused.
This mean I will see less traffic from China to my website? All incoming traffic from China is hack attempts, so it would be nice to see that traffic blocked at the source. Wishful thinking I know.
They will cut themselves off of a large amount of information on business, economy, science and so forth. It will decrease their competitive ability.