WUZHEN, China: Every nation should have independent authority over its own Internet, Chinese President Xi Jinping said Wednesday, telling a government-organised conference that “freedom and order“ are both necessary in cyberspace.
Rights campaigners have condemned the World Internet Conference, part of China’s push to sell its idea of “internet sovereignty”, a concept that stands at odds with a vision of the Internet as an open global commons.
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