I read with some amusement the account today on Chairman Xi’s comments about cyber sovereignty. It seems rational to say that every country should have sovereign control over its own part of the internet but, what was not said, that control should extend only to the borders of that country. The Internet does not have borders.
The flaw in China’s direction is it interferes with any other domain of the Internet in order to control what comes into its own domain. The clear implication is China has a right to protect and filter anything that comes into its domain. So, it attacks websites in other countries if the carry unsanctioned news about China. They prevent certain publications from being seen in China by attacking the distribution points. Those are in other countries and are available to Chinese- speaking people everywhere. The Chinese espouse sovereignty but do not honor it.
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