Inoreader - China Uses US Concern Over Fake News To Push For More Control Of The Internet

It's never a good sign when China and the US agree over the need to tighten regulation.  It proves the true goal is to control people and their behavior.



(14) Inoreader - China Uses US Concern Over Fake News To Push For More Control Of The Internet

All this talk of fake news and the public's apparent inability to be trusted with the task of sorting the real from the bogus has now led to China introducing even more censorship. #MakeSuppressionGreatAgainAlso.

China's ambitions to tighten up regulation of the Internet have found a second wind in old fears - terrorism and fake news.

Chinese officials and business leaders speaking at the third World Internet Conference held in Wuzhen last week called for more rigid cyber governance, pointing to the ability of militants to organize online and the spread of false news items during the recent U.S. election as signs cyberspace had become dangerous and unwieldy.......