Even though they are talking about Congressional testimony from their general counsel regarding a very strict set of requirements (and personal information) for .cn registration, I just can't take it seriously.
In December, China began to enforce a new policy that required any registrant of a new .cn domain name to provide a color head shot and other business identification, including a Chinese business registration number and physical signed registration forms. ...
"We were immediately concerned about the motives behind the increased level of registrant verification being required," Christine N. Jones, general counsel of the Go Daddy Group Inc., plans to tell lawmakers Wednesday afternoon, according to a copy of her written testimony to the Congressional-Executive Commission on China. "The intent of the procedures appeared, to us, to be based on a desire by the Chinese authorities to exercise increased control over the subject matter of domain name registrations by Chinese nationals."
Let's not politicize things too much, and let's not forget that GoDaddy doesn't exactly have a stellar ethical record as well. They are quick to censor speech [1], delisting whole sites from DNS. They also have advertising policies that are questionable, etc.
[1] http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/03/godaddy-silence/
> The interrogation techniques at Gitmo are very mild. It's important to note that to date, there have been no fatalities among the prisoners at Gitmo. Some of the "terrible" techniques we are being decried for using in Gitmo are sleep deprivation, solitary confinement, exposure to cold and heat (as in a cold room), mental games, constant questioning, etc. All of it, when compared to what has been done in the Middle East to extract information from prisoners is mild, indeed.
-- Bob Parsons, GoDaddy founder, from his deleted blog entry on Gitmo