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China Locks in its Net-Citizenry

Posted by timothy on from the welcome-to-china dept.

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."

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  1. Ah... by Dan+Up+Baby · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I love watching China shoot the wings off of its much-prophesied ascendency to world superpower, one authoritarian move at a time.

    Remember, CHINA: "It worked for the soviets, right?"

  2. spam consequenses by dj245 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Great, instead of spam from a fake address at a pump-and-dump english domain, we can have spam from fake email addresses on domains that appear as a bunch of random characters to those without the language set.

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