Posts Tagged: gfw


RaspberryPi

Beating the Censorship of China’s Great Firewall with Raspberry Pi

Chinese internet censorship can be a pain in the ass. While it’s easy enough to circumvent wit...

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  • May 29, 2013
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China's Great Firewall

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...

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  • January 27, 2013
  • at 12:59 pm
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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...

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  • January 7, 2013
  • at 10:29 am
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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...

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  • December 18, 2012
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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...

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  • October 11, 2012
  • at 9:55 am
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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 ...

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  • April 25, 2012
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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...

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  • April 9, 2012
  • at 11:00 am
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ai-weiwei

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...

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  • November 22, 2011
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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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  • February 28, 2013
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Github China unblocked

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 ...

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  • January 23, 2013
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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...

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  • January 3, 2013
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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...

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  • November 7, 2012
  • at 11:13 am
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China Blocks Slideshare

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a ruling Party in possession of a good fortune must be i...

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  • July 12, 2012
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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...

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  • April 12, 2012
  • at 12:35 pm
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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...

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  • March 5, 2012
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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...

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  • November 18, 2011
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