Jot: Bahrain Mandates Registration Local Websites

Bahrain's Ministry of Culture has ordered all local webmasters to register their sites:

[The Ministry's Head of Press] admitted that he did not know what a weblog was, but said that even personal websites would have to comply with the new procedure. He added that it would not be possible to register online and registration would have to be done directly at the information ministry. After each registration was validated, the person in charge would receive an ID number that would have to be posted on the site.