GoDaddy Will Stop Registering Chinese Domain Names Due to China's Intense Creepiness

GoDaddy says Google was not a motivating factor in their similar decision to pull out of China, saying they'd been agonizing over the problems long before Google's squabble with the censorship-happy country began. Instead, they say that China's increased surveillance, censorship, and monitoring of users motivated the choice.

Back in late 2009, the Washington Post reports, China started requiring insane amounts of information from new registrants of websites, a color, head-and-shoulders...