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| Sep 28, 2024 | The VPN Tug-of-War: Digital Freedom Under Siege | In the digital age, the battle for online freedom is fierce. Recent events have highlighted the growing tension between technology companies and government regulations. The recent removal of 98 VPN applications from the Russian App Store by... |
| Sep 25, 2024 | Apple удалила из российского AppStore 98 VPN-сервисов | Проект GreatFire, который отслеживает состояние веб-сайтов, подвергшихся цензуре, провёл исследование, которое показало, что Apple удалила 98 приложений VPN из российского App Store.
Используя данные App Store Monitor (ASM) на AppleCensorsh... |
| Oct 14, 2023 | Создание мультиязычного вебсайта: для Китая и других регионов | В этом обзоре я делюсь собственным опытом разработки многоязычных веб-сайтов на английском, китайском, русском и немецком языках.
Мы будем говорить про языковые версии сайта, которые действительно будут работать в соответствующих регионах, ... |
| Feb 9, 2023 | Amid ChatGPT frenzy, a hundred followers bloom in China | Technological breakthroughs in the U.S. never fail to inspire challengers, followers and opportunists in China. It’s ChatGPT’s turn to capture the imagination of the world’s largest internet population. On WeChat, ChatGPT’s “trending index,... |
| Dec 20, 2021 | The long haul of Microsoft’s China localization | In 2019, when LinkedIn began asking for Chinese users’ phone numbers, it was clear that the professional social network would have to follow a different set of rules in the country. But it realized simply setting up the real-name verificati... |
| Sep 29, 2021 | Китай заблокировал несколько криптовалютных сайтов | Три популярных сайта с данными о криптовалютном рынке заблокированы на территории Китая.
Согласно тестам, которые провел портал The Block, сайты CoinGecko, CoinMarketCap и TradingView заблокированы китайским интернет-брандмауэром. Результат... |
| Mar 16, 2021 | Weibo User: Signal Has Been Walled - Why Did China Block this App? | Joen Coronel, Tech Times 16 March 2021, 09:03 am
In what appears to be an apparent problem for a messaging app called Signal, several platforms have reported that it was now blocked in China. Signal Has Been Blocked in China
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| Sep 7, 2020 | China bans Scratch, MIT’s programming language for kids | China’s enthusiasm for teaching children to code is facing a new roadblock as organizations and students lose an essential tool: the Scratch programming language developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab.
China-based... |
| Jul 8, 2020 | The tech industry comes to grips with Hong Kong’s national security law | Scott Salandy-Defour used to make frequent stops at a battery manufacturer in southern China for his energy startup based in Hong Kong. The appeal of Hong Kong, he said, is its adjacency to the plentiful electronics suppliers in the Pearl R... |
| Feb 25, 2020 | China tenta conter críticas sobre coronavírus nas redes sociais | O coronavírus Covid-19 tem potencial para atingir o mundo todo, mas a China continua sendo a principal área de proliferação do vírus. É por isso que o governo chinês estaria tentando amenizar os estragos, só que de um modo bastante controve... |
| Dec 15, 2019 | China Roundup: GitHub’s China ambitions and WeWork rival’s big hopes | Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China Roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world. This week, we are looking at how WeWork’s largest rival in China — UCo... |
| Oct 18, 2019 | Apple’s China stance makes for strange political alliances, as AOC and Ted Cruz slam the company | In a rare instance of bipartisanship overcoming the rancorous discord that’s been the hallmark of the U.S. Congress, senators and sepresentatives issued a scathing rebuke to Apple for its decision to take down an app at the request of the C... |
| Jun 4, 2019 | China blocks CNN’s website and Reuters stories about Tiananmen Square | CNN’s website is currently blocked in mainland China, after it published a story about today’s 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre as one of its top headlines. The site is usually accessible in China, according to historical d... |
| Jun 3, 2019 | A look at the many ways China suppresses online discourse about the Tiananmen Square protests | Every year before the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre on June 4, the Chinese government begins to exert even more control over what information people can access online. This year is the 30th anniversary of the day the protests... |
| Jun 26, 2018 | China Censors John Oliver Because President Xi Looks A Bit Like Winnie The Pooh | Whatever you do, don’t point out that some people think China’s President Xi Jinping vaguely resembles Winnie the Pooh. |
| Jun 25, 2018 | John Oliver is erased from Chinese internet following segment on China | HBO’s Last Week Tonight has led to some drastic measures in China. After an episode aired on June 17th, the Chinese government is now trying to erase all signs of John Oliver on the internet.
The show had a 20-minute segment on Xi Jinping a... |
| Apr 19, 2018 | Google disables “domain fronting” capability used to evade censors | Enlarge / No, no you can't.
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| Jan 11, 2018 | Apple’s China iCloud data migration sweeps up international user accounts | Apple’s plan to migrate China-based iCloud user accounts to a local host on Chinese soil is already running into controversy after the iPhone-maker appeared included accounts registered overseas in the data.
China-based users were informed ... |
| Dec 11, 2017 | Is Apple Fully Complying With iMessage and FaceTime-Related Court Orders? | Apple’s recent acquiescence to the Chinese government, both by removing anti-censorship VPN applications and in Tim Cook’s recent speech in China, is not just disturbing because it shows Apple succumbing to Chinese pressure to remove counte... |
| Jul 31, 2017 | VPNs estão sob ataque na China e na Rússia | China e Rússia têm um histórico de banir websites que questionem a autoridade do governo. É possível driblar o bloqueio usando VPNs mas, este ano, os dois países adotaram medidas para restringir essas ferramentas.
O presidente da Rússia, Vl... |
| Jul 29, 2017 | Apple removes VPN apps from the App Store in China | The Chinese government’s crackdown on the internet continues with the news that Apple has removed all major VPN apps, which help internet users overcome the country’s censorship system, from the App Store in China.
The move was first noted ... |
| Jul 10, 2017 | China’s mobile operators are reportedly being told to ban all use of VPNs | China’s latest move to crackdown on VPN software that enables people to circumvent its internet censorship system appears to be a very worrying one.
Bloomberg reports that the government has requested that state-run telecom operators preven... |
| Mar 28, 2017 | Google makes its Translate mobile apps available for users in China | Google has reintroduced its Translate mobile apps to China, where they can now be accessed and used without the need for software to bypass local censorship.
The U.S. tech giant left China more than seven years ago when it redirected its lo... |
| Mar 16, 2017 | Pinterest is now blocked in China | China has blocked one of the few Western social media sites that had remained accessible to its population: Pinterest.
The site has followed the example of Facebook, Twitter and many others after the photo sharing site was blocked in China,... |
| Jan 23, 2017 | China announces mass shutdown of VPNs that bypass Great Firewall | Ryan McLaughlin reader comments 109 with 78 posters participating
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| Jul 5, 2016 | Finally, a service that tests and ranks the best VPNs for China | Using the internet in China is hard if you want to go beyond the Chinese web. Not only are many popular websites and services blocked in the country, such as Facebook or Twitter, but the general speed of international websites is painfully ... |
| Jun 8, 2016 | Go Home, State Council Information Office Of The People's Republic Of China, You're Drunk | Techdirt has written plenty of stories about the Chinese government’s attempts to stifle dissent online using a variety of heavy-handed approaches. But a story in the Washington Post shows China’s State Council Information Office trying a r... |
| Jun 1, 2016 | Tumblr blocked in China before Tiananmen Square massacre anniversary | Tumblr is now apparently inaccessible in China. GreatFire.org, a non-profit that monitors censorship by the Chinese government, first spotted the lockout earlier this week.
.@Tumblr gets completely blocked in China. Sadly, HowHighAreXiJinpi... |
| Feb 27, 2016 | Deposing Tim Cook | This piece originally appeared on the Washington Post's Volokh Conspiracy but its themes are so pertinent to Lawfare readers that I've submitted it to Lawfare as well.
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To avoid helping the FBI search the San Bernardino terrori... |
| Nov 24, 2015 | There's a Dark Web GitHub For Controversial Code | It's not uncommon for files hosted on sites for open source coding, like GitHub, to draw the unwanted attention of authorities. From copyrighted material to software in support of ISIS, there are numerous examples of content that might... |
| Sep 23, 2015 | The Malware Invasion of Apple's App Store Was More Widespread Than We Thought | The unprecedented malware invasion that hit Apple's App Store, which caused normally legitimate apps such as the WeChat to be laced with malware, apparently reached way more apps than initially reported.
The malicious apps were more th... |
| Aug 26, 2015 | GitHub attacked again as Chinese developers forced by police to pull code | One of the Great Firewall circumvention tool projects pulled from GitHub in the past week, allegedly due to the intervention of Chinese police.
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| Apr 10, 2015 | ‘Great Cannon’ Is China’s New Weapon That Shoots Down Internet Sites | China is widely suspected to be behind the recent attacks on Github and internet freedom group Great Fire. Now we have the most concrete evidence that indeed it was, and it looks like it did so using a new weapon to boot.
That’s according t... |
| Mar 31, 2015 | Massive denial-of-service attack on GitHub tied to Chinese government | A warning that's displayed to Internet users who have been exposed to the malicious code forcing their browser to hammer Github servers.
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| Mar 31, 2015 | China's Great Firewall Turned Around: Why China Wants To Censor Global Internet | If you pay attention to Github (and you should), you know that late last week the site started experiencing some problems staying online, thanks to a massive and frequently changing DDoS attack. Over the past few days a lot more details hav... |
| Mar 30, 2015 | These Activists Are Plotting To End Internet Censorship In China | “I hope we put ourselves out of business,” said Charlie Smith, the pseudonymous head of Great Fire. And he was serious. After all this Chinese Internet monitoring watchdog GreatFire.org is no ordinary case.
Started in 2011 by three anonymou... |
| Mar 30, 2015 | Github suffers multi-day denial of service attack | Researchers suspect the Chinese government could be behind a sustained denial of service attack on code repository Github, with China's national firewall believed to be manipulating network requests to redirect user traffic.
Github has... |
| Mar 19, 2015 | ‘China censorship’ service GreatFire.org reports DDoS attacks, asks the Internet for help | GreatFire.org, the not-for-profit website designed to highlight online censorship relating to China’s so-called “Great Firewall,” has announced that its mirror websites — set up to circumvent blocks in China — are currently suffering a dist... |
| Mar 19, 2015 | Reuters Is The Latest News Organization To Get Blocked In China | Reuters has joined Bloomberg, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal in being blocked in China. Reuters itself reported that its website is not reachable in the country as of today.
The organization said it has suffered partial cens... |
| Mar 19, 2015 | ‘China censorship’ service GreatFire.org reports DDoS attacks, asks the Internet for help | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
GreatFire.org, the not-for-profit website designe... |
| Mar 19, 2015 | Anti-Censorship Service Greatfire Is Under Attack | Greatfire, a service that monitors blocked websites in China, is suffering from a DDOS attack that is sending 2.6 billion requests per hour to its servers – a 2500% increase in traffic – with the aim of destroying the business.
The company ... |
| Mar 2, 2015 | Antivirus Maker Avast Is Latest Overseas Tech Firm Blocked In China | Popular security software company Avast is the latest overseas technology company to get caught in China’s censorship net after users began reporting that its service and website were blocked inside the country.
Data from GreatFire.org show... |
| Feb 16, 2015 | Google Launches A Chinese Version Of Its YouTube Channel For Developers | Google is continuing to open its Android platform to mobile developers in China after it announced a localized version of its Google Developers YouTube channel for the country.
The U.S. firm took a major step last November when it began all... |
| Jan 23, 2015 | China Cracks Down On VPN Services After Censorship System ‘Upgrade’ | China is cracking down on VPNs, software that allows internet users to access Twitter, Facebook, Gmail and others services blocked in the country, according to state media and service providers.
People’s Daily reports that China’s ‘Great Fi... |
| Jan 19, 2015 | Microsoft Outlook Hacked In China, New Report Finds | Only a few weeks after Google’s Gmail service was blocked in China, a new report from online censorship monitoring organization GreatFire.org released this morning states that Microsoft’s email system Outlook was recently subjected to a “ma... |
| Jan 5, 2015 | Evernote’s Chinese Service Disables Public Note Feature | Evernote’s Chinese service, Yinxiang Biji, has temporarily disabled its public note feature, a spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch today. It’s unclear why public notes was taken down or when it will be restored. We’ve asked the company for... |
| Dec 31, 2014 | India’s Government Asks ISPs To Block GitHub, Vimeo And 30 Other Websites (Updated) | Update 01/02: The government said it has lifted the block on GitHub, Vimeo, Weebly and Daily Motion, but the other websites remain blacklisted.
Our original story is below.
China may be the ‘home’ of global internet censorship, as recent is... |
| Dec 30, 2014 | Gmail is Back Online in China After Four-day Outage | Aaron Mamiit, Tech Times 30 December 2014, 09:12 am
Chinese users have been blocked from accessing Gmail in their country four four days, however, as of reporting, Gmail is back online.
Why Gmail was blocked and how it came back online is s... |
| Nov 25, 2014 | GreatFire.org and BBC punch uncensored news through the Great Firewall of China | The Great Firewall of China is renowned for the restrictions it places on what Chinese citizens can access online. Free speech advocates have long called for the Chinese government to allow access to the wider web, so people in China can ge... |
| Nov 19, 2014 | China Takes The Great Firewall Up A Notch By Blocking An Entire Content Delivery Network | It is hardly news that China is blocking Web sites — it’s so common these days that it has become almost proverbial. But hitherto, it has done it in a very targeted manner so as to minimize collateral damage that might hamper its citizens’ ... |
| Nov 18, 2014 | China Blocks Content Delivery Network Edgecast, Cutting Access To ‘Thousands’ Of Websites | China’s internet censors have been busy of late, after it emerged that the country’s Great Firewall began restricting access to thousands of websites this past week — including Drupal.org, The Atlantic and Firefox browser extensions — as a ... |
| Nov 18, 2014 | China Took Down a Chunk of the Web Ahead of a Major Internet Conference | There are a number of ways China cuts off access to websites it deems inappropriate for its populace. It can co-opt telecoms companies as part of its Great Firewall to simply blacklist sites one by one. But it can also shut off reams of web... |
| Nov 7, 2014 | Are Apple, Google, Microsoft And Mozilla Helping Governments Carry Out Man-In-The-Middle Attacks? | Back in September, we reported on the Chinese authorities using man-in-the-middle attacks to spy on citizens who carry out Google searches over encrypted connections. That’s done by using a fake security certificate to redirect traffic to a... |
| Oct 30, 2014 | Messaging App And Voice Calling Provider Viber Is Now Blocked In China | According to a number of reports out this morning, the latest service to become blocked in China is Viber, the free service that lets users make calls, text and share photos with friends, family and others. When reached for comment, the com... |
| Oct 22, 2014 | Apple CEO Tim Cook Meets With China’s Vice Premier Following iCloud Security Attack | Apple CEO Tim Cook met with Chinese Vice Premier Ma Kai on Wednesday, and on the agenda was discussing the protection of user information. The meeting took place in Zhongnanhai in central Beijing, which is the central seat of power for the ... |
| Oct 21, 2014 | China hit up Apple iCloud but not for data storage, claims censorship monitor | Quinten Plummer, Tech Times 21 October 2014, 06:10 pm
China is being accused of playing a role in a hack on Apple's Chinese iCloud service that featured an attack to obtain user credentials, photos, messages, contacts and other sensiti... |
| Oct 20, 2014 | Chinese government launches man-in-middle attack against iCloud [Updated] | A screen capture shows the warning of a fake iCloud.com certificate—signed by an official Chinese certificate authority.
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| Oct 20, 2014 | Chinese Government Accused Of Staging ‘Malicious Attack’ On Apple’s iCloud Service | China’s government is being accused of trying to wiretap Apple customers in the country. Great Fire, a reputed non-profit organization that monitors Internet censorship in China, claimed today that Chinese authorities have laid a trap to sn... |
| Oct 20, 2014 | China's Massive iCloud Hack Is So Obvious It May Be a Message to Apple | China is trying to hoover up its citizens' iCloud passwords, according to various reports, and it's doing so in a rather brazen way. The hacks are so blatant that it appears China doesn't even care who catches it spying. Onlo... |
| Oct 20, 2014 | Suspected Chinese government hackers behind new iCloud account attack | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Here we go again.
Suspected hackers working for t... |
| Sep 30, 2014 | Occupy Hong Kong protesters are locked in a technology arms race with the Chinese government | Thousands of protesters have flooded into the heart of central Hong Kong over recent days to demonstrate against the Beijing government's plans to phase out the semi-autonomous province's democratic elections by 2017. The campaign... |
| Sep 22, 2014 | Private search engine DuckDuckGo is blocked in China | China is refusing access to yet another website. China has been blocking the privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo for a few weeks, CEO Gabriel Weinberg said in a tweet.
He also said that he wasn’t sure why the site was being blocked.
In... |
| Sep 10, 2014 | China Using Man-In-The-Middle Attack Against Google | One of the most shocking revelations from the Snowden documents was that the NSA and GCHQ are running “man-in-the-middle” (MITM) attacks against Google — that is, impersonating the company’s machines so as to snoop on encrypted traffic to t... |
| Jun 2, 2014 | Google disrupted as Tiananmen anniversary approaches | China has been reportedly clamping down on the service for the last four days
(Updated to reflect comment from Google)
Google and China have had a pretty contentious history, for the last few years at least, and for good reason: the country... |
| Jun 2, 2014 | China reportedly blocks Google as Tiananmen anniversary looms | Apparently, China’s “Great Firewall” now stands between the country’s citizens and Google services.
As the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre approaches, China has blocked access to all Google services, according to censorshi... |
| Jun 2, 2014 | The Ups And Downs Of A Google Broadband Satellite Play | The WSJ has published an article about how Google is planning to invest between $1 billion and $3 billion on low earth orbiting satellites, building on news also reported in The Information and SpaceNews around new hires and Google’s strate... |
| Jan 22, 2014 | Hack most likely not the reason Chinese traffic bombarded US addresses | reader comments 11 with 11 posters participating
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Network and security experts are still trying to nail down the cause of an outage on Tuesday that briefly redirected huge a... |
| Feb 11, 2013 | At Facebook, zero-day exploits, backdoor code bring war games drill to life | Aurich Lawson reader comments 45 with 38 posters participating
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| Jan 24, 2013 | Skype Must Be More Transparent, Says Activists And Advocacy Groups | A roster of privacy advocates, Internet activists, journalists and other organizations have issued an open letter to Microsoft, calling on it to issue regular transparency reports about the release of Skype user information to third parties... |
| Jan 4, 2013 | Google Quietly Removes Censorship Warning Feature For Search Users In China (Updated) | Google has quietly disabled a feature that notified users of its search service in China when a keyword had been censored by the Chinese government’s internet controls, according to censorship monitoring blog GreatFire.org. The blog reports... |
| Nov 9, 2012 | China Blocks Virtually All Of Google’s Web Services As 18th Party Congress Gets Underway | According to multiple reports, China recently started blocking numerous Google services, including Gmail, Google Maps and others that usually pass through the country’s so-called Great Firewall. Google’s Transparency Report shows a signific... |
| Nov 9, 2012 | Google Products Blocked In China As Communist Party Selects Leaders | Google saw its services blocked in China on Friday. GreatFire.org, which monitors Chinese Internet censorship, says it’s the first time since it started tracking it back in February of last year, that this has happened.
The block reportedly... |
| Jul 3, 2012 | One Week In, New York Times’ Chinese Social Media Accounts Shut Down, Site Still Up | So much for that experiment in freedom of speech. Last week, the New York Times launched an online Chinese edition of its newspaper — and with it a social media presence in the country. As of today, the NYT Chinese site is still working, bu... |