The council’s president Abdel-Hadi Mahfouz Monday called on all Lebanese website hosts to register their websites at the council and said they would begin accepting applications Nov. 1.

Mahfouz didn’t specify the types of websites that need to register or the technical means to be used to create such a database. [DailyStar]

I go on and on in criticizing this law, but Mustapha said it best:

“It’s like asking us to walk into a prison so that they could protect us from murder.”

Karl from KarlreMarks Blog shares also our views on this matter.