Chinese forum exposes cracks in the internet that could splinter it wide open


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Chinese forum exposes cracks in the internet that could splinter wide open Issued on: 24/11/2020 - 11:05 Tencent Holdings Ltd Chairman and CEO Pony Ma speaks at the fifth World Internet Conference (WIC) in Wuzhen, Zhejiang province, China, November 7, 2018. REUTERS/Jason Lee Follow 5 min A yearly internet forum in China, home to the “Chinese Firewall” and known for its massive restrictions of its domestic internet, underlines the fact that the idea of a truly global internet for all does not have much chance to ever being realized. Recent actions by India and the US risk fracturing the World...