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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."

2 of 217 comments (clear)

  1. Re:GNAA KICKS ASS by Eternal_Flame · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What
    the
    fuck?

    Remind me, how does all of this shit relate to china's DNS??
    And why exactly hasn't this already been modded to hell???

    --
    ~You laugh because I'm different, I laugh because I'm insane~
  2. China: urgent reform required by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Appaling human rights record
    Censorship
    Punishment of political and religious expression

    Why does the world keep rewarding China ?

    Reform/regime change FIRST (get rid of CCP and have democracy)

    Rewards LATER