What started as “security” measures prompted by the Ukraine war, appears to be moving to a blueprint for a fragmented, controlled Runet (Russia’s internet).
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Big Brother gets new powers in China with digital ID system
China’s new centralized digital ID system could become de facto compulsory, deepening the CCP’s ability to reshape public thought by controlling information flows.
They are closing up the internet
The internet took flight on the ethos of freedom from authority and propaganda, carried by the insatiable drive of human beings to know. That internet took a turn.
As China’s internet disappears, ‘We lose parts of our collective memory’
The number of Chinese websites is shrinking and posts are being removed and censored, stoking fears about what happens when history is erased.
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