China and Kenya

Ethan’s got some excellent posts, pointing to and contextualizing some other excellent posts on the meaning of China’s new top level domains and on the Kenyan government’s shutdown of a TV station and newspaper that it didn’t much care for.

Ethan’s conclusion, based largely on Steven Murdoch’s post, about the Chinese TLDs is that China is not trying to “create domain conflicts over .net or .com, but is instead creating some new TLDs that will work primarily in China.” Still, it’s a regrettable rupture in the Net. [Tags: ethan_zuckerman china kenya]

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