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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 ...
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 ...
On December 19, 2013, due to the adjustment of the CNAME record of the domain name of Wikipedia in each language, users in mainland China can directly access the encrypted version (HTTPS) of Wikipedia in each language and the Ming version (HTTP) pages without sensitive words. 2015–2019: Blocking of Chinese Wikipedia
Internet café in Lijiang City. According to a survey by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), China had 1.09 billion Internet users by the end of December 2023, a 1.9% increase over the year before and a penetration rate of 77.5%. The proportions of users accessing the Internet via mobile phones, desktop computers, laptop ...
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]