China’s president wants to make the internet ‘fairer’ — for China

China’s stranglehold on its citizens’ internet usage is notorious, and now the officials in charge of it are gathered at China’s main internet conference in Wuzhen. Today, President Xi Jinping called for greater global cooperation in making the internet fairer in a speech that was read on his behalf at the conference, Reuters reports. “There is an urgent need for us to speed up the internet economy and work for governance that is more fair and equitable,” Xi said. The word “fair” rings somewhat hollow coming from a man who’s so insecure about his likeness with Winnie the Pooh that…

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https://ift.tt/2Ov8xrP Már Másson Maack November 07, 2018 at 06:01AM