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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 ...
One example of tunneling is if internet user "A" in China emailed internet user "B" in America asking for the contents of a blocked webpage. [260] Internet user "B" could then respond with an email containing the contents of that blocked webpage, allowing internet user "A" to access the censored information. [ 260 ]
a list of "Corporate Enemies of the Internet", companies that sell products that are liable to be used by governments to violate human rights and freedom of information. The five "State Enemies of the Internet" named in March 2013 are: Bahrain, China, Iran, Syria, and Vietnam.
As of April 2019, all versions of Wikipedia are blocked in mainland China under the Great Firewall. [7] [8] [9] The Chinese Wikipedia was launched in May 2001. [10] Wikipedia received positive coverage in China's state press in early 2004 but was blocked on 3 June 2004, ahead of the 15th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and ...
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 ...
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 ...