How the Great Firewall of China Works [INFOGRAPHIC]
China’s Great Firewall is widely reviled (and with good reason), but how it actually works isn...
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Social Coding Site Github Unblocked and Accessible Again in China
It was just two days ago that my colleague reported on how the social coding site Github had become ...
Study: Actually Only About 20,000 Twitter Users in China [INFOGRAPHIC]
Remember that bizarre kerfuffle over the dubious stats showing that China had tens of millions of Tw...
Chinese Internet Connections Unreliable in Run-Up to Party Congress
Beijing takes the 18th Party Congress (the once-a-decade leadership transition) pretty seriously. An...
China Blocks Slideshare
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a ruling Party in possession of a good fortune must be i...
China Web Users Report Overseas Websites Inaccessible, and Overseas Access to Chinese Sites Spotty [UPDATED]
Internet users in China are reporting that the web has turned into an intranet, and no-one is able t...
As Real-name Registration Looms, Chinese Microblogger Registers with GFW Creator’s Name
Real-name registration is coming to Chinese microblogs. Perhaps in protest of that, or just in prote...
US Congressional Panel Tackles China’s Great Firewall, Seeking a WTO Intervention
The US Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) held a new hearing in Washington yesterday...
White House Petition Calls for Architects of China’s Great Firewall be Denied Entry to the US
A user-submitted petition has gone up on the White House website that calls for the chief architects...
New Study Proves that Twitter Users in China are Rare Birds
We recently looked at some stats compiled by a Chinese netizen that showed a mere 18,164 Twitter use...
Web of Failure: How China’s Internet Policies Have Doomed Chinese Soft Power
This past week, even as net users across the country were discovering that China’s Great Firew...
What Would China be Like if the Internet Wasn’t Censored?
Everyone knows that China’s internet is censored. There’s the government-run firewall that block...
Google Drive Already Blocked in China, Never Stood a Chance
Google Drive has just launched. Google Drive is blocked in China. Because we’re talking about ...
Kowtow Alert: TuneIn Censors Its Own Radio App in China
China’s web isolationism has taken a bizarre new turn with the American radio streaming app Tu...
Global Times Attacks Ai Weiwei, Calls For Authorities to Crack Down on “Illegal” Microblogging
Avant-garde artist Ai Weiwei is no stranger to microblogs, or to controversy. Nor is Hu Xijin, the o...
Google says: Gmail and Android Market Outage is Our Bad, Not a China Block
Google has finally spoken out on the four-day long inaccessibility of Android’s Market and Gmail a...
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