The great firewall of China

This is what happens when morons control the Internet. [China is requiring Websites to register with the authorities.]It’ll just push the chinese to register non-CN domain names, and patronize non-Chinese Webhosting companies. The government may initially be able to maintain a blacklist of sites, but as more and more free-speech sites and blogs come up, they won’t be able to maintain an updated list. The Internet is just too big - and it’s just not possible to keep track of what everyone says and thinks and figure out which blog is pro-government and which blog is anti-government. Pretty soon China will have to block international news sites such as cnn.com and bbc.co.uk; they may even have to black out the entire .TW domain! Later on, when the Govt sees that their plans aren’t working, then may choose to just maintain a whitelist of allowed sites, or black out entire segments of the internet. Then businesses will complain because they can’t stay competitive anymore. It’ll be interesting to see how long this lasts. I’ll bet THREE YEARS MAX!