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Retrieved 1 July 2024. China's "Great Firewall" is one of the world's most comprehensive internet censorship regimes, preventing citizens from accessing websites like Instagram, Wikipedia and YouTube. ^ a b "China's Facebook Status: Blocked". ABC News.
According to a Harvard study, at least 18,000 websites were blocked from within mainland China in 2002, [98] including 12 out of the Top 100 Global Websites. The Chinese-sponsored news agency, Xinhua, stated that censorship targets only "superstitious, pornographic, violence-related, gambling, and other harmful information."
Politics of China. The Great Firewall ( GFW; simplified Chinese: 防火长城; traditional Chinese: 防火長城; pinyin: Fánghuǒ Chángchéng) is the combination of legislative actions and technologies enforced by the People's Republic of China to regulate the Internet domestically. [ 1] Its role in internet censorship in China is to block ...
Censorship in the People's Republic of China is mandated by the PRC's ruling party, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It is one of the strictest censorship regimes in the world. [1] The government censors content for mainly political reasons, such as curtailing political opposition, and censoring events unfavorable to the CCP, such as the 1989 ...
Internet censorship circumvention. Internet censorship circumvention, also referred to as going over the wall ( Chinese: 翻墙; pinyin: fān qiáng) [ 1][ 2] or scientific browsing ( Chinese: 科学上网; pinyin: kēxué shàngwǎng) [ 3] in China, is the use of various methods and tools to bypass internet censorship . There are many ...
t. e. In general, there is relatively little Internet censorship in Hong Kong beyond laws that criminalize the distribution of unlicensed copyrighted material and obscene images, particularly child pornography when compared to the rest of China. [ 1][failed verification] Although Hong Kong law provides freedom of speech and press, and freedom ...
Internet portal. v. t. e. Internet censorship is the legal control or suppression of what can be accessed, published, or viewed on the Internet. Censorship is most often applied to specific internet domains (such as, Wikipedia.org) but exceptionally may extend to all Internet resources located outside the jurisdiction of the censoring state.
The censorship of Wikimedia in mainland China means that the government of the People's Republic of China and network operators in mainland China have used technical means since June 2004 [1] to prevent netizens in mainland China from accessing some or all project websites under the Wikimedia Foundation. One of the most affected projects is the ...