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This (天网, or "sky net") most likely comes from proverb "天网恢恢疏而不漏" (tian wang hui hui shu er bu lou), meaning "Justice has long arms."

This saying was from Lao Zi, going back thousands of years.

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It might be both. Like here where .gov nerdy projects will be some long name starting with "Operational" that'll make the pointy hair bosses happy, but when you look at the title and subtitle it spells out Optimus Prime. I can imagine similar games being played in Mandarin.

It also sort of looks like heavenly internet, where heavenly or celestial has a lot of associations in Chinese that resist easy translation.

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