China's new rules may break the internet warns US government

Kim

Wait, didn't Kim Kardashian already break the internet with those photos? Omg, how much more can it take?!

"The world's governments have long acknowledged that what countries do within their own borders is largely their own business."

The US, of course, has long taken the view that what it wants to do within other countries' borders is also its own business.

Their upset about China's actions might have an element of sour grapes in that they didn't get round to doing that first.

Are they just talking about .cn domain names?

If so, I don't see any reason why that's a problem. Aren't countries supposed to be able to manage those as they see fit? If they want real names, fingerprints and a blood sample that's for them to decide.

If the worries about them blocking is that they'd block all domains except those ending in .cn, that would simplify the great firewall pretty nicely. Then any IP address it sees, if it doesn't reverse map to a .cn name it gets blocked. That's not great for the freedom of their citizens, but I don't think the US would want China telling us what our laws should be, so I don't see why we should tell them what theirs should be (aside from my country's belief that everyone should be subject to our laws, and we should be subject to no one's but our own)

The Arab Spring?

Because that was, err, so successful?

The one country not in complete ｓｈａｍｂｌｅs after it, Egypt, did have its free elections - only to have them overturned by a Western-supported coup later, because the result did not quite fit what we wanted.

China is going to get a bad rep if they keep copying the UK like this!

Nominet the .uk registry has insisted on a policy of real names for nearly 2 years. They will vaildate whatever you put down in the ownership and if they can't prove it's real will cancel your registration.

This policy wasn't taken by the members of Nominet, but by the highly paid senior staff that run the shower. My guess was Govt, Police or some other state organisation directed the policy and they just lapped it up.

sorry spooks..

Going to be a little harder to blame China now. Next stop Russia and idk why, but Brazil is popular for their abuse.

They can take our internets

But they'll never take our anonymity!!!

Fight them with technology.

The only way to prevent censorship of the internet is to build it using technology that resists censorship efforts.

Even simple SSL is a powerful tool: MITM isn't practical on a country-wide scale, so it prevents governments from selectively blocking individual pages or inspecting content - all they can do is block an entire host, which creates much more upset from the population. It also makes monitoring communication to identify subversives much more difficult.

How is this any different from what other countries are doing with their own registrars?

I have a dozen .com and get pestered on a monthly basis in order to update my whois information, which contains name and address so I'm pretty sure that they can identify me quite easily...

So let me get this right....

the government demanding all registrants are vetted. BAD

Private company taking down domains with due process or right to appeal. GOOD.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/05/13/motion_picture_ass_of_america_to_guard_online_henhouse/

Got it.

I've been dropping everything .cn at the firewall for years.

So far? No problems. They may have something important to say, eventually, at which point I might unblock them.

::shrugs::

Oh well...

Bang goes the ability to buy Chinese tat off fleabay.

Or is that necessarily not a bad thing.... hmmm.....

Kick em Off

Sounds like China wants to run their own internet, and why not let them? Cut the cables at their borders and let's get on with our day.

More IPV4 addresses for the rest of us!