China advances plans for national single-stack IPv6 network, and its own surveillance-friendly version of the protocol

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China advances plans for national single-stack IPv6 network, and its own surveillance-friendly version of the protocol

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China is advancing plans to develop a national single-stack IPv6 network, including a surveillance-friendly version called IPv6+. This version could facilitate censorship and traffic blocking, and China is already exporting this technology abroad.

IPv6+ could make it easier to censor netizens or block traffic, and Beijing is already exporting it

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