China closing the tech gap?

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The Chinese government controls encryption for messages going into and out of the country. Very few business people are likely to be using commercial channels to consider insurrection.

When the Chinese government finishes devising its own operating system and forces it onto its people, I assume there will be a way of monitoring what's done on the computer.
Whatever restrictions of open source seem to apply will be overcome.

Ironically, Chinese people are likely to have greater freedom if they are able to use Windows.



From the article:
Wong, a former U.S. State Department official who stressed that he was not speaking on behalf of Nvidia, said he has heard that China requires companies to use an encryption system to which the government retains a key. The result, he suggested, is that corporate intellectual property may be at risk when data is zapped in and out of the country. "My assumption is anything you put in there, the government can have," Wong said.

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