The Great Firewall of China, officially known the Golden Shield project, employs a variety of tricks to censor China’s Internet and block access to various foreign websites. We’ll be looking at some of the technical tricks the firewall uses to censor China’s Internet.
Understanding what the Great Firewall of China does can help us understand how certain organizations want to put Internet censorship into place throughout the world. If you think the Great Firewall just uses one method of censorship, think again — it uses a variety of tricks......
What is the Great Firewall of China?
If you haven’t been keeping track, China has a censored Internet. The Great Firewall of China is generally considered the largest, most extensive, and most advanced Internet censorship regime in the world.China censors content for a variety of reasons, often because it’s critical of the Chinese government or contrary to Communist Party policy. China doesn’t just block individual websites — they use techniques to scan URLs and web page content for blacklisted keywords like “Tiananmen” and block such traffic.
By blocking foreign social networking sites like Twitter and forcing their citizens to use alternatives like Sina Weibo, China is able to control social-networking sites, gaining the ability to censor posts on them. China also hires people who are paid to post content favorable to Communist Party policy on the Internet, attempting to sway public opinion.
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