Article 3SQVE China has perfected the internet control playbook and now it's exporting it to the world

China has perfected the internet control playbook and now it's exporting it to the world

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Cory Doctorow
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After decades of back-and-forth over internet freedom, China has figured out a method for allowing people to use the internet for social and business purposes, but not for political reform -- a combination of huge boiler-rooms full of censors, centralization of internet services under tight government control, and control over standards to ensure that surveillance and censorship are always possible. (more")

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