US Government Report: China May Seek to 'Control the Internet'

Britain’s Telegraph reports:

“A state-run telecoms firm is accused of diverting traffic including data from US military and government websites, and some in Britain, via Chinese servers.

Experts fear that the authorities could have carried out ‘severe malicious activities’ as a result of the 18-minute operation, even harvesting sensitive data such as the contents of email messages or implanting viruses in computers worldwide.

The report by the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission says it raises the prospect that China might use its powers to ‘assert some level of control over the internet’.”