It seems rather problematic to try to counter the threats posed by Russian and China by emulating their behaviour
In 1990, in the early days of the internet, a top-level domain (think .com, .ca, etc.) was created for the Soviet Union. At the time, it was almost inconceivable that the country’s Communist government would ever allow its citizens to gain access to the internet, which was seen as a promising tool to facilitate the free flow of information around the world. Fifteen months later, the U.S.S.R. collapsed, but the question of how authoritarian regimes would continue hiding information from their populations in the digital era continued to vex regimes that relied on censorship, surveillance and misinformation to keep their hold on power.
