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China Locks in its Net-Citizenry
DatedNews writes "China's registry CNNIC teamed up in March with registar i-DNS.net to provide "Internet domains completely in Chinese characters" to the Greater Chinese Internet community.
What at first might look like a localization issue could potentially become a powerfull user lock-in and turn out to be a very effective addition to The Great Chinese Filtering."
Arrogance? We (America) invented the darn thing! We can do whatever we want with it!
Okay, that probably came out as troll/flamebait, but it always seemed funny to me how people will get mad at the inventors of something because they didn't put in a feature that the complaining person wanted. I think we should have a bunch of seperate internets connected togethor by an intercontinental WAN.
"I don't really care if they label me a Jesus Freak / There aint no disguising the truth!" - DC Talk
Oh, for fscks sake, get a grip now. Every time its about China we see this stupid paranoia; I'm sick of it, to be honest. What's going to be next? 'Chinese rice harvest record high - could this be a new plot to suppress freedom of speech?'
You Americans (or to be more precise: citizens of USA, since America is so much than USA) keep blabbing on about freedom, freedom, freedom. You know what I use to say? If you're starving, all you think of is food, if you're thirsty, all you think about is drinks. So why do you go on about freedom? Need I say more?