Recently China has made moves to control content on the internet worldwide by censoring what words can and cannot be used in domain names. So far there are 12,000 words that China has banned.
Thanks to the Obama administration and congress a company has made a deal with China to be able to do this.
Oversight has been severely lacking in this deal.
Links below
By Accepting Chinese Censorship of Domains, Registry xyz.com Invites More
By Accepting Chinese Censorship of Domains, Registry xyz.com Invites More
https://www.eff.org/...
Domain registry xyz.com has put in a proposal to ICANN [PDF] that would see it automatically censoring new domain names that match a Chinese government blacklist. Industry news site Domain Incite has reported that this puts perhaps close to 12,000 banned words and expressions onto the blacklist, thereby preventing terms such as the Chinese words for “democracy” and “human rights” from being registered within any of the company's top-level domains—which include .xyz, .college, .rent, .theatre, .protection and .security. This will apply not only to Chinese registrants, but to registrants worldwide.
https://www.eff.org/...
China censorship sweep deletes more than 60,000 Internet accounts
http://uk.reuters.com/...
China passes new national security law extending control over internet
http://www.theguardian.com/..._
China Pushes to Rewrite Rules of Global Internet
Officials aim to control online discourse and reduce U.S. influence
http://www.wsj.com/...
China to Codify Internet Control Measures
Beijing hopes to make cyberspace “safe and harmonious” territory.
http://thediplomat.com/...
How does China censor the internet?
http://www.economist.com/...