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The Great Firewall of China (abbreviated to GFW) is the combination of legislative actions and technologies enforced by the People's Republic of China to regulate the Internet domestically. Its role in the Internet censorship in China is to block access to selected foreign websites and to slow down cross-border internet traffic.[1] The effect includes: limiting access to foreign information sources, blocking foreign internet tools (e.g. Google search, Facebook) and mobile apps, and requiring foreign companies to adapt to domestic regulations.[2][3] Besides censorship, the GFW has also had an impact on the development of China's internal internet economy by nurturing domestic companies [4] and reducing the effectiveness of products from foreign internet companies.[5]
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In 1998, the Communist Party of China feared that the China Democracy Party (CDP) would breed a powerful new network that the party elites might not be able to control.[11] The CDP was immediately banned, followed by arrests and imprisonment.[12] That same year, the GFW project was started. The first part of the project lasted eight years and was completed in 2006. The second part began in 2006 and ended in 2008. On 6 December 2002, 300 people in charge of the GFW project from 31 provinces and cities throughout China participated in a four-day inaugural "Comprehensive Exhibition on Chinese Information System".[13]
Great Firewall of China
Mainland Chinese Internet censorship programs have censored Web sites that include (among other things):
* Web sites belonging to "outlawed" or suppressed groups, such as pro-democracy activists and Falun Gong
* News sources that often cover topics that are considered defamatory against China, such as police brutality, Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, freedom of speech, democracy sites.[29] These sites include Voice of America and the Chinese edition of BBC News.
* Sites related to the Taiwanese government, media, or other organizations, including sites dedicated to religious content, and most large Taiwanese community websites or blogs.
* Web sites that contain anything the Chinese authorities regard as obscenity or pornography
* Web sites relating to criminal activity
* Sites linked with the Dalai Lama, his teachings or the International Tibet Independence Movement
* Most blogging sites experience frequent or permanent outages
* Web sites deemed as subversive
originally posted by: ChaoticOrder
I'm even seeing people use China as a great example of how to block fake news, they actually seem to think the entire internet should be filtered using something similar to the Great Firewall of China, in order to "uphold social stability".
Nearly half of Russians (49 percent) believe that information on the Internet should be subject to censorship, while 58 percent would not mind it if – in the event of a national threat – the Russian segment of the Internet is shut down completely. This conclusion was reached by the authors of the report "Benchmarking Public Demand: Russia’s Appetite for Internet Control."
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Among the most "dangerous" content that should be banned, Russians name homosexual propaganda (59 percent), social network groups linked to organizing anti-government protests (46 percent) and videos by the Pussy Riot band (46 percent). rbth.com...
originally posted by: hopenotfeariswhatweneed
a reply to: ChaoticOrder
I do agree with your stance on this, but I have to say anyone who gets their news and or world views from twitter or facebook most likely is fairly daft and likely don't have the ability to think for themselves anyway, so it's no great loss in my opinion.
originally posted by: hopenotfeariswhatweneed
a reply to: ChaoticOrder
I do agree with your stance on this, but I have to say anyone who gets their news and or world views from twitter or facebook most likely is fairly daft and likely don't have the ability to think for themselves anyway, so it's no great loss in my opinion.
O jeepers, somebody disagrees with us, they must be brainwashed.
Flip. it must be Facebook!
originally posted by: ChaoticOrder
I'm even seeing people use China as a great example of how to block fake news, they actually seem to think the entire internet should be filtered using something similar to the Great Firewall of China, in order to "uphold social stability".