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.

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Good luck with that

[phorm]

"censor any domain names not registered within China"

So what, only 99% of the internet then?

Doomsday Online

[ThatsNotPudding]

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.

Not much different with trade, currently

[WindBourne]

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.