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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.
China's censorship includes the complete blockage of various websites, apps, and video games, inspiring the policy's nickname, the Great Firewall of China (simplified Chinese: 防火长城; traditional Chinese: 防火長城; pinyin: Fánghuǒ Chángchéng), [2] which blocks websites. Methods used to block websites and pages include DNS spoofing ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
t. e. 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 ...
On June 3, 2004, Wikipedia was blocked in some cities in mainland China (such as Beijing), but Wiktionary was still available. On June 11, other Wikimedia projects were blocked. On June 17, the IP address block appeared to have been lifted, but the website was still inaccessible to some. On June 18, all of Wikipedia except the Chinese version ...
YouTube was first blocked in China for over five months from October 16, 2007 [ 7] to March 22, 2008. [ 8] It was blocked again from March 24, 2009, although a Foreign Ministry spokesperson would neither confirm nor deny whether YouTube had been blocked. [ 9] Since then, YouTube has been inaccessible from mainland China. [ 10]