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These 6 tech companies have made the controversial decision to try to operate in China, where the government can demand social media posts be removed or search results be censored
Wikipedia, Twitter, and Facebook, are among the major websites that Chinese users can't access. Oth…
Mary Meisenzahl
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The Great Firewall of China blocks access to two ultra-popular crypto data sites for users based in the mainland
Real-time crypto market data providers CoinGecko and CoinMarketCap were blocked by the country's fi…
Shalini Nagarajan
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Gmail Is Back Online In China
There have been months of disruption in mainland China to the world's biggest email platform. …
Joshua Barrie
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Here are all the major US tech companies blocked behind China's 'Great Firewall'
That ban prevents companies like Facebook, Google, and Dropbox from reaching the country's over 800…
Paige Leskin
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Microsoft's search engine, Bing, is the latest website to be blocked under China's strict online censorship rules
Under China's president Xi Jinping, the government has implemented several policies to increase onl…
Paige Leskin
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Twitter's new China MD has been linked to the Great Firewall
Chinese Twitter users highlighted Chen's background as an engineer for the Chinese military during …
Sam Shead
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The Wall Street Journal suggests that Snowden gave China an incredibly powerful cyber weapon
Citizen's Lab notes that the only other "known instances of governments tampering with unencrypted …
Michael B Kelley
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An app that allowed people in China to skirt the nation's internet ban to use Facebook and Google launched last week — then it disappeared
The Chinese government blocks the popular apps like Facebook and Twitter. Tuber, an app that lets p…
Katie Canales
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Why Did Huge Amounts Of Chinese Web Traffic Get Redirected To This House In Wyoming?
While it's not exactly clear what Sophidea Inc. does, a quick Google search for its name finds some…
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Meet the crack team who just exposed 'The Great Cannon,' China's insanely powerful hacking tool
What makes the Great Cannon so interesting is that it's a sort of Janus-faced attack mechanism. Its…
Cale Guthrie Weissman
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China's 'Great Firewall' is taller than ever under 'president-for-life' Xi Jinping
In September 2015, censorship-monitoring site China Digital Times received a rare image of a censor…
Tara Francis Chan
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China will lift part of its 'Great Firewall' to give foreigners access to Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter on a tropical island dubbed 'Hawaii of the East'
China wants to transform the island, which is the size of Belgium and has been dubbed the "Hawaii o…
Tara Francis Chan
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A map showing Taiwan and China as separate countries rattled some nerves from behind China's Great Firewall
Beijing's increasingly public obsession with cartography is emerging in increasingly strange quarte…
Christian Edwards,Christian E…
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Meet the activist using the web to help China's LGBTI community cross the 'Great Firewall'
What does and does not violate Chinese censorship standards has become a multi-million dollar guess…
Sidney Fussell
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7 viral moments that showed the world what was really happening behind China's Great Firewall of censorship in 2022
There have been protests in every major city — including Beijing, the Chinese capital.NOEL CELIS/AF…
Cheryl Teh
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Microsoft's Bing search engine returns to China just a day after users reported outages
The Financial Times reported that the Chinese government cited "illegal content" as the reasoning f…
Paige Leskin
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9 incredibly popular websites that are still blocked in China
China has since let some sites like LinkedIn come back online, but here's nine popular websites tha…
Biz Carson,Vivian Giang
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Chinese Internet Giant Tencent Fired A Guy Just For Talking To John Kerry
Beijing tightly censors the Internet, banning websites including Facebook and Twitter with a system…
Agence France Presse
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People think China has gone to war against GitHub
Earlier in March, GreatFire's website was also targeted by a DDoS directly. At the time, the organi…