Tag: GREATFIREWALL

The world was abuzz today with news that jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo had won the Nobel Peace Prize. Except in China, that is, where the country's censors were working overtime to expunge his name from all media. It's not enough that state owned news station and papers won't report on Xiaobo's win, the country is also blacking out commercial stations like CNN during segments in which they ...

By now, you've surely heard of China's so-called Great Firewall, the country's continued efforts to restrict access to material that the government deems questionable. We've also covered how Skype is becoming a bit of a haven for those with questionable intents because of the difficulty of monitoring conversations there. China, however, has found a way to track at least some traffic, filtering ...

The Olympics are over, which means all the discussion and controversy over China's filtering of the Internet are over too, right? Well, not quite. It's been discovered that China and its "great firewall" have decided to block access to the entirety of Apple's iTunes, likely over an album dedicated to freeing Tibet. The album is a benefit for the Art of Peace Foundation, a non-profit founded by the ...

Ok, this has simply gone too far. It's one thing to block access to certain sites or even kill new Internet cafes, but to prevent an entire nation of people from using a technology as wonderful as RSS is just plain cruel. Today, the Chinese government enacted a blanket ban on RSS feeds. We can only assume that this is because RSS feeds are quicker and easier to update. They can also be updated ...