New Internet & Loss of Free Speech We find that in China, Huawei and Chinese carriers want to redesign a key aspect of the internet.There is a  proposed a new internet protocol at the ITU, New IP, that theoretically offers more efficient addressing and network management than the existing TCP/IP standard but also appears to have hooks that allow authoritarian regimes to censor and surveil their residents. Most notably, there would be a "shut up command" that would let a central part of the network cut off data going to or from an address. As you might guess, that could be handy if China wanted to silence an activist without resorting to extra tools. There are also concerns that New IP would require authentication and authorization of not just new internet addresses, but also the humans involved and the data packets being sent. China has long called for linking real names to internet users, and this potentially links people to the very internet connection itself. The left in Europe has the same covert ideas. We are looking at the loss of free speech in many parts of the world. New IP should be ready for testing by early 2021.