Re:To Cover China, There’s No Substitute for WeChat
by walrus01 on Friday January 18, 2019 @04:57PM
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> If WeChat is taking over the world.. it's a world without foreigners.
From the point of view of the Chinese government authorities, this is a feature, not a bug.
China has effectively segmented the "Internet" into two categories, those things with servers/centralized authority hosted domestically in China, subject to the Ministry of State Security, and things outside the Great Firewall on the "foreign" Internet.
I would be entirely unsurprised if at some point in the future the government requires their domestic ISPs to use a Chinese-hosted set of root nameservers other than the ICANN lettered roots.
From the point of view of the Chinese government authorities, this is a feature, not a bug.
China has effectively segmented the "Internet" into two categories, those things with servers/centralized authority hosted domestically in China, subject to the Ministry of State Security, and things outside the Great Firewall on the "foreign" Internet.
I would be entirely unsurprised if at some point in the future the government requires their domestic ISPs to use a Chinese-hosted set of root nameservers other than the ICANN lettered roots.