This news is missing the most important information. I read a more detailed news somewhere else:
The chinese government also mentioned that the whole reason they are doing this is because it's too dangrous for US to control the entire internet root alone.
For example, if one day US and China are not happy with each other, US can simply go: hey dude, I'm not happy with you, I'm blocking you from my internet root servers (well, not just traffic, anything and everything that people in China need for internet to operate correctly).
So, in the case US does that, the entire China will be greatly effected (we all know how much everyone in the world relys on Internet now days, both work and life).
Thus, common sense, people will do things to keep themselves safe.
My guess is that this thing has nothing or very little to do with censorship, neither has anything to do with developing a Chinese character standard to isolate the net from the world. If this does happen, the new net in China will still work with the rest of the world.
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This news is missing the most important information. I read a more detailed news somewhere else:
The chinese government also mentioned that the whole reason they are doing this is because it's too dangrous for US to control the entire internet root alone.
For example, if one day US and China are not happy with each other, US can simply go: hey dude, I'm not happy with you, I'm blocking you from my internet root servers (well, not just traffic, anything and everything that people in China need for internet to operate correctly).
So, in the case US does that, the entire China will be greatly effected (we all know how much everyone in the world relys on Internet now days, both work and life).
Thus, common sense, people will do things to keep themselves safe.
My guess is that this thing has nothing or very little to do with censorship, neither has anything to do with developing a Chinese character standard to isolate the net from the world. If this does happen, the new net in China will still work with the rest of the world.