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China Prepares to Launch Alternate Internet

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the aided-by-google-no-doubt dept.

Netfree writes "The Chinese government has announced plans to launch an alternate Internet root system with new Chinese character domains for dot-com and dot-net. This may mean that Chinese Internet users will no longer rely on ICANN, the U.S.-backed domain name administrator, and, as one commentator notes, could be the beginning of the end of the globally interoperable Internet."

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  1. WAAAAAAHOOOOOOOOOO by buttcheese · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    pinko commies thwarting my internet, I say mutually assured destruction. lets blow the hell out of them commies.

  2. Figures... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    now that China has started I wonder how long before the EU jumps on the me too bandwagon?