2015-07-09
A draft cybersecurity law published by the National People’s Congress (NPC) looks set to formalize and extend Beijing’s already tight grip on the Chinese Internet, although official media denied it would curb people’s online freedom.
The draft law aims to “ensure network security, [and] safeguard the sovereignty of Continue reading
China’s Draft Online Security Law Could Further Tighten State Control of Netizens已关闭评论
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Tagged censorship, China, Internet Freedom
2015-05-05
Netizens at an Internet cafe in China’s Zhejiang province, Nov. 2, 2012.
AFP
China’s 642 million Internet users are gradually abandoning the once-popular Twitter-like Sina Weibo and similar sites, as several years of crippling censorship is revealed in recent research, Continue reading
Chinese Netizens Migrate Away From Closely Censored Weibo Platforms已关闭评论
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Tagged censorship, China, Internet Freedom
2015-04-29
Netizens at an Internet cafe in China’s Zhejiang province, Nov. 2, 2012.
AFP
Tough new regulations requiring online publishers to attend “chats” with officials Continue reading
China’s New Internet Rules Raise Questions Over Role of Agency已关闭评论
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Tagged censorship, China, Internet Freedom
FILE – China’s top search engine, Baidu is seen on a laptop screen.
Shannon Van Sant
April 22, 2015 1:13 PM
HONG KONG—China has long censored the internet with its so-called “Great Firewall.” But now researchers from the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Continue reading
Chinese Cyber Tool Poses Risks for Chinese Firms已关闭评论
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Tagged censorship, China, Internet Freedom
April 10, 2015
This post describes our analysis of China’s “Great Cannon,” our term for an attack tool that we identify as separate from, but co-located with, the Great Firewall of China. The first known usage of the Great Cannon is in the recent large-scale novel DDoS attack on both GitHub and servers used by GreatFire.org.
Authors: Bill Marczak1,2,3 (Lead), Nicholas Weaver2,3 (Lead), Jakub Dalek,1 Roya Ensafi,4 David Fifield,2 Sarah McKune,1 Arn Rey, John Scott-Railton,1 Ronald Deibert,1 Vern Paxson.2,3 Continue reading
2015-04-10
A man surfs the Internet at a coffee shop in Beijing in a file photo.
AFP
China has added a powerful new weapon in its battle to control what its users see online, adding the “Great Cannon” to its existing arsenal of blocks, filters and human censorship known Continue reading
China Deploys New Online Weapon in Internet Censorship Game: Report已关闭评论
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Tagged censorship, China, Internet Freedom
By PAUL MOZUR April 02, 2015
One of the world’s great coding libraries is safe, for now.
As of Tuesday, GitHub, a site that hosts code for programmers, said that a major attack that seemed to come from the Chinese government had subsided.
For the last week, GitHub had been overwhelmed by traffic that security experts said originated from China’s Great Firewall. Continue reading
China Blamed for 5-Day Attack on Coding Site GitHub已关闭评论
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Tagged censorship, China, Internet Freedom
2015-04-02
Updated at 04:35 P.M. EST on 2015-04-02
Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong have formally arrested three netizens on suspicion of “incitement to subvert state power” Continue reading
China Formally Arrests Three Online Activists For Subversion Over Tweets, Posts已关闭评论
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