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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. Re:In this morning's news... by humaniverse · · Score: 0, Troll

    I guess you either from Mars or from fooled island called Taiwan. Watch news on CCTV! Man, open your eyes! See how biased Taiwaness by its media rather than mainland.