Posted on 05/02/2021 5:42:46 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Chinese leader Xi Jinping personally directed the communist regime to focus its efforts to control the global internet, displacing the influential role of the United States, according to internal government documents recently obtained by The Epoch Times.
In a January 2017 speech, Xi said the “power to control the internet” had become the “new focal point of [China’s] national strategic contest,” and singled out the United States as a “rival force” standing in the way of the regime’s ambitions.
The ultimate goal was for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to control all content on the global internet, so the regime could wield what Xi described as “discourse power” over communications and discussions on the world stage.
Xi articulated a vision of “using technology to rule the internet” to achieve total control over every part of the online ecosystem—over applications, content, quality, capital, and manpower.
His remarks were made at the fourth leadership meeting of the regime’s top internet regulator, the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission, in Beijing on Jan. 4, 2017, and detailed in internal documents issued by the Liaoning Provincial Government in China’s southeast.
The statements confirm efforts made by Beijing in the past few years to promote its own authoritarian version of the internet as a model for the world.
In another speech given in April 2016, detailed in an internal document by the Anshan City Government in Liaoning Province, Xi confidently proclaimed that in the “struggle” to control the internet, the CCP has transformed from playing “passive defense” to playing both “attack and defense” at the same time.
Having successfully built the world’s most sprawling and sophisticated online censorship and surveillance apparatus, known as the Great Firewall, the CCP under Xi is turning outwards, championing a Chinese internet whose values run counter to the open model advocated by...
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They own Zuckerman and Dorsey, so they already control the Interwebs.
Pei Ping!
I suppose it’s healthy to have dreams.
Per the article:
Three-pronged Strategy
Xi ordered the regime to focus on three “critical” areas in its pursuit of controlling the global internet.
First, Beijing needs to be able to “set the rules” governing the international system. Second, it should install CCP surrogates in important positions in global internet organizations. Third, the regime should gain control over the infrastructure that underlies the internet, such as root servers, Xi said.
Domain Name System (DNS) root servers are key to internet communications around the world. It directs users to websites they intend to visit. There are more than 1,300 root servers in the world, about 20 of which are located in China while the United States has about 10 times that, according to the website root-servers.org.
The ways things are going one wonders how much longer we will be able to post here.
So guys. How much does it cost to stand up a root server?
Maybe we need to fund some Red Blooded, Fly-Over Country Based, Servers of our own!
Will this delay my Chicom Ebay purchases?
Thanks 0bama, for making this possible.
Same formulas they use on our Media, our corporations, our state governments, school boards, institutions, and elsewhere.
Why change what is working so well for them so for?
Seems logical. Watch what you say, they’ll be calling you a radical...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_NGulTmh88
CCP is azzhole
Handing it over to the international community was such a
brilliant move.
Bkmk
Why should they bother? Big Tech is already doing this for them.
ChiCom bump for later.....
"Xi, old buddy, ol' pal, together we will make China great again."
I think we need to destroy that dam of theirs.
Just make it appear to be a natural accident.
Rod from god type event.
Oops that must have been your core stage rocket booster falling back to earth...
Zuckerburg and Gates don’t appreciate competition
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