8 comments

  • red-iron-pine 7 hours ago ago

    > In an effort to shield its citizens from the global internet, Russian authorities have effectively turned Runet into a technological appendage of the Chinese internet network.

    entire country is trending that way; an appendage of China. "the Canada of China" as someone else put it.

    • yosefk 7 hours ago ago

      The Ukraine of China is more like it

      • aliowka 20 minutes ago ago

        Not very precise, since Ukraine of nowadays is hard to be called appendage of anything.

  • jurschreuder 3 hours ago ago

    This was already published many countries use Chinese internet censoring technology this is no secret

    • aliowka 11 minutes ago ago

      For most of russians this is a huge surprise. All their so called "independent internet" is a misnomer.

  • catlikesshrimp 6 hours ago ago

    nitpick: "It serves over 320 mobile subscribers and is a key developer and operator of the "Golden Shield"

    I think it should say either 320 mobile subscriber networks, or 320 million subscribers.

    Otherwise, I like the writing very much

    • aliowka 23 minutes ago ago

      You're absolutely right. The original post is fixed. Thanks for the heads up!

  • jaxobdelete 7 hours ago ago

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