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What's up the that? It's common sense that the things listed can bypass firewalls, it's like saying you need a citation for saying "pencils are used to write things". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.156.30.234 ( talk) 18:07, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
I changed the sentence to say *most of* because not the entire site is available. For example, this very article is blocked and is impossible to reach except through VPN, at least in most of the country. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.121.99.210 ( talk) 06:47, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
I have removed the part about CERNET's Internet access to foriegn web resource because it has nothing to do with censorship. The article says CERNET banned access to foriegn websites so students are encouraged to use proxies. This is rather inaccurate and misleading. What happens is CERNET offers the students extremely low price (almost none) for access to domestic internet. While access to foriegn resources cause extra cost, CERNET charge extra money for this access. For example, in Tsinghua University, CERNET charge 30 yuan (appr. 4 USD) for 80 hours in one month, which is much lower than the average price provided by comercial ISPs. This has totally nothing to do with censorship. Biggu 02:24, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
The People's Republic of China has set up a set of Internet censorship systems that are collectively known as the Great Firewall of China.
Wikipedia is banned? Why? wshun 06:26, 31 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Subheadings needed for a nice TOC. I tried by scanning, but couldn't do it appropriately. -- Menchi 06:45, Jul 31, 2003 (UTC)
HOw Ludricous----
The government now has started the education of AIDS in China now. There are even websites set up by AIDS patients.-- Formulax 03:06, 5 Dec 2003 (UTC)
--- What is cheesecake? Secretlondon 19:39, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Was there any voice from Chinese users about a translation of this article? ;-) -- Tomchiukc 03:41, 10 Jun 2004 (UTC)
I don't think it is needed. The Chinese version has much more details, especially about recent development of enforcing laws and regulations.-- Skyfiler 22:10, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)
What about internet censorship of China? i.e. the blocking of internet access from China. Mostly as a result of spam. Btw, should the companies/products that do the censorship be mentioned? // Liftarn
Let's try and approach this objectively even if it sucks. We should be careful about any speculation, especially when it concerns Wikipedia itself. Dori | Talk 03:49, Jun 15, 2004 (UTC)
"Great Firewall of China " very imaginative name. I laugh a bit. ;) China wants its citizens to be ants.- Pedro 01:48, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Imaginitive, bull. It's a common term for dot see en's filtering system. -- D.valued 09:56, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
The section on the effect on Wikimedia is interesting, but it's too out of proportion for this article. We've tried to avoid writing about Wikipedia in Wikipedia (ie. "navel gazing"). Perhaps this should be largely moved to Meta? Fuzheado | Talk 23:47, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I'm wondering if Chinese censors have ever tried to edit Wikipedia articles to suit their versions of history and politics? Does anyone know?
Everyone take a look at what the bot wrote just above this line. "This has never been occurring. You should hold suspicion of propaganda origin from other sources such as cult of Falun Gong, who may freely attempt public relation distortion use medium such as Wikipedia." We can all tell it is a computer generated bot because it can't speak English. There are only 8 million people in China who I would even begin to think have any brains or sense. The rest are just bots listening to the guy with the big gun in their face. This makes the average chinese person evil or just pathetic. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.127.251.137 ( talk) 02:34, 27 August 2008 (UTC) maybe user: wen hsing doesn't know english to well -he is chinese after all-, it doesn't mean that its a bot, he could have just used google translate or babelfish —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.181.152.73 ( talk) 20:41, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
This article has been renamed as the result of a move request. Internet censorship in China → Internet censorship in the People's Republic of China
The article is clearly about Internet censorship in the People's Republic of China, as implemented by the government of the People's Republic of China. — Lowellian ( talk) 08:25, Feb 24, 2005 (UTC)
This discussion is no longer active. violet/riga (t) 20:26, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Ran, sorry, I don't want to revert war with you because we've always come to a resolution without going back and forth.
If the article says this is about censorship in the mainland in the first sentence, what good does it do for the reader to say "mainland" again in the second and third sentence? How does reverting back to having these superfluous statements provide any understanding of the situation in HK? Do mainland internet users refer to it as "the great firewall"? Let's add a statement specifically about HK and remove the repetive phrasing.
but that rename alternative wasn't well received a month ago. Is the "great firewall" term used within China or only outside? SchmuckyTheCat 04:09, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
maybe not then [1] so lets leave that third sentence. ta ta. SchmuckyTheCat 16:04, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Following the long discussion at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Chinese) regarding proper titling of Mainland China-related topics, polls for each single case has now been started here. Please come and join the discussion, and cast your vote. Thank you. — Insta ntnood 15:16, Apr 9, 2005 (UTC)
Recent developments like the closing down of YTHT and the neutering of SMTH aren't even mentioned. Is it possible for someone familiar with these developments to write something on these topics? -- ran ( talk) 22:43, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)
I added links to Cisco which has provided the Chinese gov't with routers. Also, added point of view of human rights advocates Human Rights Watch & Reporters W/O Borders for balance (see guidelines NPOV -- Kaspiann 11:29, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
I added this new section as it's relevant and may influence American corporate policy -- Kaspiann 11:33, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
The article mentions "Overseas Chinese websites" under the list of Foreign Sites censored. It doesn't appear to be true. Should it be deleted? - Bnitin 05:48, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
Websites in chinese about censores subjects are censored. Many pages about Tibetan independence e.g. Can someone please check if theese sites are blocked? www.tibet.com www.studentsforafreetibet.org www.savetibet.org www.freetibet.org www.heartibet.org
I guess that many religious sites are blocked too. Falun gong, Jehova's witnesses... Al-Jazeera? www.iwtnews.com? Should we mention sites that are blocked? Not ALL of course, but some?
Are the people of mainland China aware of the Internet censorship taking place in their country? the article mentions only it is possible to sense censorship ("white spaces in BBS'es"), but how many actually know about it? -- Abdull 12:25, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
Censorship in China redirects to this artice. Surely the Chinese government censors things other than the internet (try taking Bibles or Falun Gong lit. into China). Hence I suggest this article be split. LukeSurl 20:25, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
There is an article on xys forum (2005) discussing about URL keyword test.
To both of you: good research, but we can't include it in the article. See WP:NOR. If you can find an outside source that has made these claims, then we can include them. Kasreyn 19:58, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
This is very odd. The article mentions Google being blocked. However, Google has now made a localized version, Google.cn which panders to the interests of the Chinese regime. Example:
First image hit on Google.com for Tiananmen: tanks and oppression. First image hit on Google.cn for Tiananmen: tourists hugging.
How can this not be noteworthy in the context of the Great Firewall of China? Kasreyn 07:20, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
Strangely enough, I just checked both of those links and both had images of tanks driving towards a protester. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.89.186.177 ( talk) 23:37, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
This is inaccurate....
This isn't a law passed. It's essentially a judicial interpretation of the law, which allows the criminal code to be used in internet cases. It's also not the basis for legal internet censorship in China, since most of the censorship involves administrative actions that aren't covered by the Criminal Code.
Just as a note, when you are dealing with Chinese Law, it is *very* important to keep in mind the difference between a law, a decision, an opinion, a measure. a regulation, and a decree. This different documents are very different from each other.
Roadrunner 17:11, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
Best as I can tell, every instance of the word "Internet" should be capitalized. This article has had a lot of trouble following this standard. Please take note of this when adding or improving content.-- Daveswagon 05:36, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
The external links section is a mess. I'm trying to organize it. If you can help, please do. These links are suppose to offer information that the article doesn't, so many of them should probably be converted to references or outright deleted.-- ShipSinker 14:48, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
The titles of the Chinese versions of this article seem to have been changed to literal question marks, causing the links on the sidebar to be broken. (This may just be a glitch with my browser? Could someone else check?) -- π! 02:18, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
I am visiting Beijing at the moment. The fact that I can visit and edit this page is a testament of how much censorship there is. Google.com is blocked at the moment, but it was working earlier today. There are some censorship, but they don't seem to be permenant, usually back on in a few hours.
I have spoken to a relative who is a IT professional here in China. He point out that the Internet connection both inside and outside China are worsened by the turf wars of the ISPs here. There are two major network providers in China, China Telecom and China Netcom. The connection between them are pretty bad even in China. Basically, they "intentionally" increase the latency and packet loss between each other to force customers to get their service. So a medium website that would want to reach all audience would have to pay for both services. (Big sites don't care cause they usually have distributed server farms.)
When I get back to the states, I will try to find sources to back up his claim and add them to one of those pages. -- Voidvector 16:43, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
Please do not make speculative and false accusation, is disrespectful and may cause unwanted commercial troubles. Wen Hsing 22:15, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
The mindless chinese bot speaks again. "Please do not make speculative and false accusation, is disrespectful and may cause unwanted commercial troubles You might be tempted to think that since Chinese follows SVO grammar the same as English that they could get some of it right but alas they are just too stupid to get any of it at all. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.127.251.137 ( talk) 02:40, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
The article currently has:
"DNS filtering and redirection. Don't resolve domain names, or return incorrect IP addresses. This affects all TCP protocols such as HTTP, FTP or POP"
Surely failure to resolve DNS affects UDP as much as TCP (and indeed any other IP protocols). Anyone have any objections to changing TCP to IP, and updating the examples? ConditionalZenith 04:28, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
This article says that the PRC has completely unblocked Wikipedia. Is that true? 24.93.190.134 02:36, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
Psiphon [2] is a software project designed by University of Toronto's Citizen Lab under the direction of Professor Ronald Deibert, Director of the Citizen Lab. Psiphon is a circumvention technology that works through social networks of trust and is designed to help Internet users bypass content-filtering systems setup by governments, such as China, North Korea, Iran, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and others.
"We're aiming at giving people access to sites like Wikipedia," a free, user-maintained online encyclopedia, and other information and news sources, Michael Hull, psiphon's lead engineer, told CBC News Online. [3]
Octopus-Hands 23:56, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
a new article has been created. it is very big, the government spent over 60 billion rmb on it. so it deserves for its own place. I just copied some part. feel free to add more. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by SummerThunder ( talk • contribs) 01:22, 29 December 2006 (UTC).
It is over 33K now... -- Skyfiler 03:04, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
Okay, someone just added a neutrality dispute tag to the page. If there is anyone who agrees with this, please state what elements of this page you feel are not neutral. Otherwise, the tag will be removed.-- Daveswagon 04:22, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
'Benefits of content refinement' - you've got to be kidding me. Are working for the Chinese dictaroship or just reading out of their propaganda? Any neutral person would agree censorship is evil. Jörg Vogt 23:15, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
I made a correction regarding neutrality. Under the Golden Shield Project heading it stated that "article 15 officially creates an internet dictatorship". This is clearly not right because it doesn't place the internet under the control of a single individual; what an "internet dictatorship" would even look like is unclear. So it is pretty clear that "dictatorship" was just being used as a snarl word. So I changed it to "article 15 defines what information must be restricted" since this seems more accurate and less POV.
I feel something needs to be done with the "Recent developments" section. It's a long and tedious list and will only become more so as it is added to. Furthermore, I think the article should focus on the current standing of Internet censorship in the PRC rather than giving a "play by play" of its progression. I would recommended cutting and pasting most or all of this section into a new article such as "Timeline of Internet censorship in the People's Republic of China" or "History of Internet censorship in the People's Republic of China". Does anyone having anything to say about this?-- Daveswagon 19:16, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
Some help is needed in making a potential article over here - about the alleged flooding of the internet with information by secret police used by a few governments (currently the Russians and the Chinese have been accused of doing this). Some notable sources are available in the references section.
The original article (which was very problematic and was deleted) was purely based on the FSB allegations, and an attempt is being made to make the future potential article more international. It is currently up for deletion review over here, where there is a tie of votes (9 to 9) between those who endorse its deletion and those who want it overturned and relisted.
This is a very controversial topic, but I'm hoping that there are to be enough notable sources to make a decent article out of it - perhaps someone here may be able to help.
The article is still heavy focused on the FSB's role - I'm trying to make it more international (note: I'm not the creator, I just think that it deserves some attention). Esn 03:48, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
Please recall importance neutrality maintained. Do not unnecessary make accusation without proper investigation, and ensure you are not trick into disseminate criminal propaganda. Do not jeopardize friendly international relation of Wikipedia Project and recall commercial reality. Please consider benefit of Government correction of inaccuracy. Together we strive for common goal of truth, good relationship and prosperity. Wen Hsing 04:30, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
The MIA came under attack from the PRC a little while ago. I think it'd be worth putting up since China is a supposed "Marxist-Leninist-Maoist" nation. Thanks. Here's the site www.marxists.org User:MC John
I think people say its not so absurd, because China is not really Marxist-Lenist in terms of economic policy. They are as capitalist as anyone now. And they abuse human rights. Jörg Vogt 03:46, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
Man how many times is the bot going to be sent out. YOu would think that it would at least go back and edit its English so that we could get a glimse of the trash it wants to tell us but I am starting to think that it doesn't really care if we understand or not.
"Respectfully consider absurdity of falsity accusing PRC of leading 'attack' on the MIA webserver. There has never been forthcoming the proof to support such accusation. Perhaps technical misconfiguration is responsible for systerm failure, and MIA has blame China, due to ideological objection to our nation legitimate economic reform aimed to benefit society. MIA must show more responsibility in care to avoid cause social instability by inappropriate ideas"
Oh and Respectfully, when the Chinese government stops Chopping the Hands off of Catholic Priest for no reason what so ever I might start thinking that China isn't just all evil, but that isn't likely to happen since Chinese people think that the world loves them for killing people. Chinese people actually think they are better than everyone else and that some how gives them license to kill and destroy. I would say Nazi to describe them but communists in China are actually worse. I will say this though, for thinking that they are the best people ever to be put on the planet regardless of how many lives the destroy, they sure aren't smart enought to learn SIMPLE ENGLISH. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.127.251.137 ( talk) 02:51, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
greatfirewallofchina.org claims that Estonian Meteorological and Hydrological Institute(www.emhi.ee) and newspaper Postimees(www.postimees.ee) are blocked. Can anyone confirm? -- Tarmo Tanilsoo 10:05, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
Can anyone check if Happy Tree Friends is banned in China?-- Dark paladin x 20:00, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
I think this very article is blocked - at least it was when I was in Dalian last week. At least, I think that's the only explanation for my browser terminating loading the page after a fraction of a second and displaying "this page cannot be found".
Does that count as original research?
203.118.29.177 15:42, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
I've put the link back in because I think it demonstrates really well how google is censored in the PRC. Wikipedia guidelines (from what I can see) urge plain search results not to be used - that isn't what we've got here, so I don't think they have to apply. John Smith's 22:43, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
Censorship is never conducted by logical people, but this article seems incredible. The Chinese government blocks access to foreign nameservers, but allows connections to Anonymizer? They block connections based on presence of controversial keywords, but allow encrypted connections abroad? I feel like such inefficient tactics could use some explanation. 70.15.116.59 ( talk) 15:34, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
The impression I got when I was studying abroad in China is that the government doesn't mind if the censorship can be circumvented just like they don't mind if English books and websites put out moderately critical material. The implicit rational seems to be that if someone in China can read and write fluent English or has the technical skills to circumvent the firewall they are, by virtue of their education and skills, part of an elite is likely indebted to modern Chinese society and likely to contribute something of value. The goal just seems to be to prevent dissent and unrest from emerging among the great masses who are unable to circumvent firewalls or read English. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.89.186.177 ( talk) 23:27, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
It appears that the photo-sharing website Flickr has been blocked in the PRC for several months. This should be noted in the article. Badagnani ( talk) 06:08, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
There seems to be a lot of misunderstanding over this, but the term "Great Firewall of China" does not refer specifically to the Golden Shield Project. People have been using this term for at least the past couple years; for example, when MSN voluntarily complied in censoring Chinese blogs. The Golden Shield Project only went online fairly recently, but all internet censorship in China has been mockingly referred to in the west as the "Great Firewall" for a few years now. When people have said Great Firewall then, they haven't meant some sort of computer system that was coming in the future, they were referring to the situation at that time (the "current" situation, back then). The Great Firewall is not a specific computer system, it's an ironical, mocking term of the whole censorship situation (i.e. "The chinese government's efforts to control the internet will fail just like their efforts to keep out Mongol invaders")
For a citation that they are not considered the same thing, see here (
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/15-11/ff_chinafirewall ) "The Golden Shield — the latest addition to what is widely referred to as the Great Firewall of China — was supposed to monitor, filter, and block sensitive online content." —Preceding
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Please do not delete text without using an edit summary. That is vandalism, so I have reverted it accordingly. If you wish to make a case for removing text, ok - but the explanation is very useful in my mind so it should stay. John Smith's ( talk) 12:08, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
Think we should find a way to mention this internet censorship related controversy in this article? ViperSnake151 15:19, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
The Chinese language service is still blocked, which is rather important given most Chinese do not speak English. If this changes it would be a good idea to mention the fact it was lifted on a certain date, rather than give the impression that services were never blocked. John Smith's ( talk) 08:18, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
An anon user has input the following text:
As of March 31, 2008, China has unblocked all access to Internet Web sites, including English and Chinese versions of Wikipedia, BBC, the Falun Gong home page, and the Dalai Lama's home page.
The article cited does not confirm this. Also personal research is forbidden, so we cannot take anyone's word for it. The latest we have had confirmed by the media is that various websites are still restricted, such as the Chinese-language BBC service.
Could we please get independent confirmation of this new text? If not it should be removed. John Smith's ( talk) 12:34, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
Altough the motivation for such control of thoughts is obvious from the PRC Governances people, and as such, could be skipped from the article, it would still be interesting to write on why the Mainland chinese peoples themselves still choose to massively trust and believe on it, although they know they are actively denied access to any opposite point of view by this very government. Should it relates to Chinese_nationalism ? Benji2 ( talk) 22:07, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Are there any official exemptions from censoring, such as Internet pipes to foreign companies with offices in China? Or does it apply everywhere? - Rolypolyman ( talk) 00:10, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
It's not clear if it's unblocked just for journalists in the Olympic village or for all of China. — Pengo 08:15, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
Quoting the article: "Initially, the Chinese government, the IOC and Jacques Rogge had assured that Internet access would not be censored at the Olympic Village press center.[21]"
The phrase "assured that" suggests that definite measures had been taken which would ensure that Internet access would not be censored. All they (i.e., the Chinese government, the IOC and Jacques Rogge) did, it seems, was to make convincing sounding statements to the effect that Internet access would not be censored.
It would be clearer and more accurate if "assured" was replaced by "stated".
Wanderer57 ( talk) 13:48, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
This claim had not been tagged previously that I can see. Now, I am not saying that it is definitely 100% correct. However, to simply remove it because it is not sourced and is "too big" a claim is not appropriate. It should be left up for at least a few weeks to give people the opportunity to find a source. John Smith's ( talk) 20:43, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
I think following description, anti-Japanese, in the passage should be removed imediately, according to my own experience (which I learned in Hong Kong), China government do not use the system to remove the messages about anti-Japanese protest. But use it to block the access of some article which is against China government. In addition, if the China goverment do not argee about the content of an article, they will still blocking the access to that article. The following link is a very good example that shows that China government is still blocking some of the Wikipedia articles, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989.
For my opinon, I will use a sentence to summarize this thing. China goverment do not use this system (Great Firewall) to protect their citizens and other countries (e.g. Do not remove the message about anti-Japanese), but use it to block the bad news of China and protect the power of themselves (e.g. Block the access to certain article that against China government and its policy).
This is the orginal passage: The escalation of the government's effort to neutralize critical online opinion comes after a series of large anti-Japanese, anti-pollution, and anti-corruption protests, many of which were organized or publicized using instant messaging services, chat rooms, and text messages. The size of the Internet police is estimated at more than 30,000.[3] Critical comments appearing on Internet forums, blogs, and major portals such as Sohu and Sina usually are erased within minutes.
The passage after modifying: The escalation of the government's effort to neutralize critical online opinion comes after a series of large anti-pollution, and anti-corruption protests, many of which were organized or publicized using instant messaging services, chat rooms, and text messages. The size of the Internet police is estimated at more than 30,000.[3] Critical comments appearing on Internet forums, blogs, and major portals such as Sohu and Sina usually are erased within minutes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Unknownzd ( talk • contribs) 06:51, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
According to my own memory, I have remembered that the China government has blocked the access to the China version of Wikipedia. Why am I having such a memory? It's because I am living in Hong Kong and and one of the Hong Kong television company have assigned a lot of journalist to the Olympic village (the television company is called TVB). When the team of the journalist arrived the Olympic village, they have done several test about the Internet. They foundd that they can go to the websites such as Google and the English version of Wikipedia. But if my own memory is correct, the journalists cannot visit the the Chinese version of Wikipedia at that time. But when I went to visit the chinese version of Wikipedia after two days at that time, I find that many China users (fake?????) have reported that they can visit the Chinese version of Wikipedia at the time I visited.
In addition, if you guys wanted to translate a Chinese version of articles to an english version, I think I could give you a hand to achieve this. My English writing level is not so good lol", so please just forgive me lol" But I think I could give you an exact meaning of a Chinese sentence. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Unknownzd ( talk • contribs) 07:14, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
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The edits made earlier today are clearly original research. Editors cannot make such analysis by themselves. If someone who is recognised in this area makes that sort of analysis, they can be quoted. But this is clear jetsamjetsam's opinion and thus falls under the original research prohibition. Thus I have reverted the changes. John Smith's ( talk) 18:44, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
Holy See has a Chinese version of www.vatican.va now. Is it blocked in China?-- Tricia Takanawa ( talk) 18:47, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
no Livingchina ( talk) 18:12, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
The actual notice has now been removed for the second time. I see NO reason why our reader can not see/read the actual notice rather than an editors interpretation. The question at hand is censorship. To read how the government presents its side is certainly a positive for the article. We should leave it to our reader to evaluate. Is their some motive afoot that I may not be aware of? Please reconsider the value of including the actual notification. It doesn't take up much space...its verified and reliable...its on topic...-- Buster7 ( talk) 12:11, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
The discussion is not finished, so I think your once again restoring the notice is rather aggressive. Call an RfC if you like, because we all have a right to our opinions, but to keep on reinserting it in the face of opposition like you have just done is, I believe, rather unproductive. Ohconfucius (talk) 03:45, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
You, or perhaps John Smith, initially deleted my edit....prior to and without discussion. So lets discuss, at Internet censorship in PRC, from the initial point of contact. But I request that my edit stay in place since it speaks exactly and clearly to the threads title...the Green Dam.--Buster7 (talk) 03:56, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
It's just how things work around here - I refer you to WP:BRD. I still don't think it should stay for the reasons already given. I would just say that if I wanted to revert you, I would have done so by now. We should continue discussing this coolly and rationally, not conditional upon something being inserted or deleted (I only want to discuss if I get to keep the ball) ;-) Ohconfucius (talk) 04:28, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
see: Talk:Internet censorship in the People's Republic of China for further negotiations;--Buster7 (talk) 05:06, 16 June 2009 (UTC) Retrieved from " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Buster7"-- Buster7 ( talk) 06:24, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
You cannot stop everyone in the world from editing "your" stuff, once you have posted it to Wikipedia. As each edit page clearly states:
<- The "explainable reason" is that this is just a subsidiary article about Green Dam - the main subject is Internet censorship, which hasmany aspects. We have an interest in creating an interesting summary so that the reader will click on the {{ main}} link. Therefore, the information exists in a summary form of the entire article (although I have already stated that the same information is already in the article, albeit not in the form of the notice. We don't want to bore the reader, nor to provide too much detail. If the reader is interested in reading the full notice, he knows that he will find it in the principal article. BTW, Buster, kindly stop the disruption. I have left a WP:3RR warning on your talk page. Ohconfucius ( talk) 16:25, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
From WP:ANI which is a directive of policy at Wikipedia... When you find a passage in an article that you find is biased or inaccurate, improve it if you can. If that is not easily possible, and you disagree with a point of view expressed in an article, don't just delete it. Rather, balance it with what you think is neutral. -- Buster7 ( talk) 00:29, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
OMG! chow young ling died!!!!!!!!!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.63.48.21 ( talk) 01:56, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
I think a section on how regular Chinese citizens react to the extensive firewall would be welcome. Is it accepted and do people not care too much about it, or do they put up with it because they have no choice and would bypass it willingly if they could? An age related statistic would also help IMHO —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.59.226.110 ( talk) 21:42, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
This paragraph could do with being translated into standard english :)
Let's talk about Internet censorship in the People's Republic of China
I think this artile only discussed the censorship of state-owned Internet Service Providers. Other ISPs, companies and orgnizations have their own firewall and censorship systems. An example of this is the Education Network maintained by universities in mainland China. It is also known that different branch of state-owned ISPs have different censorship standards, Wikimedia was still accessible from some state-owned internet services when it is reported blocked.
...needs to be redone by someone with Chinese fonts installed.
[quote] Neither the Tor website or network are blocked, making Tor (in conjunction with Privoxy) an easily acquired and effective tool for circumvention of the censorship controls. Tor maintains a public list of entry nodes, so the authorities could easily block it if they had the inclination. According to the Tor FAQ sections 6.4 and 7.9, Tor is vulnerable to timing analysis by Chinese authorities, so it allows a breach of anonymity. Thus for the moment, Tor allows uncensored downloads and uploads, although no guarantee can be made with regard to freedom from repercussions. [/quote]
Well, first, even if Tor's website was blocked, it would still be easy to get it, though any other site or p2p network. And if the entry nodes in the public list were blocked, one could still access that network, if one knew, or found somwhere else the IP of an (entry) node. All p2p networks have these elements, but are still much harder to completely block than any other architecture - cuz theyre p2p. But my main problem is about the traffic analysis attacks; it is of course true that using traffic analysis techniques, one could find out which Tor nodes communicate to one another. But the whole point of its technology, onion routing, is designed precisely to make such determination difficult; there is no other technology obscuring identity of nodes better! And its allmost impossible to create a network that would be totaly resistent to traffic analysis (though quite high and reasnoble ressistance is possible, and Tor is pretty good in that relative regard), outside of making all nodes use all bandwith all the time! So its really unfair to state this as Tor's minus, its actually its most positive side!
-aryah
Infranet, developed by folks at MIT, uses Steganography to embed information in innocuous-looking http traffic
This section could use some references. BeckyD 18:50, 14 Febuary 2008
... and Google will not censor its search engine. Even Google is considering pulling out of China: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html -- 201.223.80.197 ( talk) 03:40, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
Does anyone object to me setting up automatic archiving for this page using MiszaBot? Unless otherwise agreed, I would set it to archive threads that have been inactive for 30 days and keep ten threads.-- Oneiros ( talk) 17:07, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
Qiu's paper made a mistake that the first internet regulation, known as Interim Provisions Governing Management of Computer Information Networks in The People’s Republic of China Connecting to The International Network, was passed by the 42nd Standing Convention of the State Council on January 23rd, 1996. In 1993, there was no internet access in China. The first line was established by Sprint and China Telecom in 1994 and the internet public service was open to society on January, 1995. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.182.237.115 ( talk) 07:43, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
I find this page too long, I was looking for some information about chinese economy and i surprisingly find out that this page on "censorship in China" is quite as long as the page on its economic information or military information...it's quite sad that so many people put their interest in adding info on this page about politics and controversal facts than other pages... CHN710 ( talk) 09:38, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
http://www.greatfirewall.biz/url/55335
well, thats not ironic really, but just funny. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DJLO ( talk • contribs) 06:44, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
Now many of the sources are second-hand sources, and often not at all available on-line. It would be better to supply URLs of actual documents (even Chinese is ok) or at least credible expert sources, i.e. law firms, academic publications, or official organs instead of magazines
-- Sigmundur ( talk) 12:44, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
As far as I am aware, there was a consensus reached to rename the page on China to be about the PRC, rather than China as a historical or cultural entity or whatever. I am not aware of a "consensus" that says that every instance were "People's Republic of China" appears in a title it should be changed to China. Consensus is reached, as far as I know, on the pages in which things are discussed. I have not heard of a process by which consensus by a group of editors discussing one matter on one page is then automatically extended to a number of other related pages in terms of what they are to be titled. I strongly suspect this would call for individual consensus on the various pages which moves were desired for. If I am mistaken, please correct me. In any case, I suggest first beginning with a proposal, explanation, and an attempt to form consensus about the move. The Sound and the Fury ( talk) 03:19, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
I am about to revert a change made at 04:48, 22 March 2013 by IP 70.167.209.181 and go back to the version from 14:43, 20 March 2013 by JayJasper.
Before (version by JayJasper):
After (version by IP 70.167.209.181):
The after version changes the information conveyed entirely by adding the word not and changing the source of the reference to one that does not talk about the "2012 study of social media sites by other Harvard researchers". The change seems misleading to me. -- Jeff Ogden (W163) ( talk) 13:34, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
Terminate TCP packet transmissions when a certain number of controversial keywords are detected. This affects all TCP protocols...
It's obviously not true. It may only affect those protocols which contain any words, i.e. are unencrypted, uncompressed and carry any text. Even the article goes on to say that SSL and VPNs can act as a workaround, and what are they based on if not TCP/IP? Ustt ( talk) 10:37, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
Surveillance awareness day is a proposal for the English Wikipedia to take special steps to promote awareness of global surveillance on February 11, 2014. That date is chosen to coincide with similar actions being taken by organizations such as Mozilla, Reddit, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Feedback from editors of this article would be greatly appreciated. Please come join us as we brainstorm, polish, and present this proposal to the Wikipedia Community. -- HectorMoffet ( talk) 12:56, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
Hello originally the lead of the article said " The escalation of the government's effort to neutralize critical online opinion comes after a series of large anti-Japanese, anti-pollution, anti-corruption protests, "
I took out the part about anti-Japanese because the source didn't say that, it isn't mentioned anywhere else in the article and it didn't make sense, I think someone meant to say anti-Chinese protests? The article does say that all thru out, that china is censoring anti-china websites and posts. Popish Plot ( talk) 20:59, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
Golden Shield Project (GSP) and Great Firewall of China (GFW) are completely different. GFW is only about internet censorship in China, but GSP includes security management information system, criminal information system, exit and entry administration information system, supervisor information system and traffic management information system. GSP also includes Bureau of Public Information and Network Security Supervision (公共信息网络安全监察局, or 网监局 for short) , which may possibly be GFW. As a result, GFW may possibly be one of the sub-projects of GSP. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 183.38.6.56 ( talk) 03:14, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
You can use http://www.greatfirewall.biz to verify whether a certain website is currently blocked in mainland China.
No longer works, try http://www.blockedinchina.net instead. CouldThatBe ( talk) 21:56, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
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Reuters reported this week that a lawsuit has been filed in a California federal court alleging that "Cisco and its executives designed and implemented [the Golden Shield] surveillance system for the Chinese Communist Party, knowing it would be used to root out members of the Falun Gong religion and subject them to detention, forced labor and torture." Apparently the suit further alleges that some 5,000 Falun Gong followers have been wrongfully imprisoned, tortured, or killed with the help of technology provided by Cisco. This seems quite notable, but I'm wondering where it might best belong on this page. Thoughts? Homunculus ( duihua) 04:33, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
Since four days ago wikipedia.org has been blocked by the great wall. On the 26:th is the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/05/22/wikipedia-disturbed-over-fresh-china-censorship/ CouldThatBe ( talk) 22:02, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
"Internet censorship in the People's Republic of China is conducted under a wide variety of laws and administrative regulations. There are no specific laws or regulations which the censorship follows. In accordance with these laws, more than sixty Internet regulations have been made by the People's Republic of China (PRC) government..." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.125.49.20 ( talk) 03:59, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
In the Under Enforcement -> Use of service providers section, the article states: "In July 2007, the city of Xiamen announced it would ban anonymous online postings after text messages and online communications were used to rally protests against a proposed chemical plant in the city. Internet users will be required to provide proof of identity when posting messages on the more than 100,000 Web sites registered in Xiamen.[33] The Chinese government issued new rules on Friday requiring Internet users to provide their real names to service providers, while assigning Internet companies greater responsibility for deleting forbidden postings and reporting them to the authorities." (Boldface added by me.) The ambiguous use of the word Friday confuses me. Does that mean this last Friday (which would be December 16), and so have to be changed on the 23rd; or does it mean the Friday directly following Xiamen's previously mentioned announcement, which is of indeterminate date given the information provided in the article. I don't know what date it was, so I can't fix it except with "soon afterwards" or something to that effect, which I don't want to do because it's very nonspecific. Does anyone know what date this occurred? Thanks! A lad insane Channel 2 17:48, 18 December 2016 (UTC)
Looks like reference 104 has a error. ShadowYC ( talk) 23:15, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
Add a section mentioning experts opinions of when all this blocking of major websites nonsense will stop. Jidanni ( talk) 09:41, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
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List of blacklisted keywords in China was nominated for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of blacklisted keywords in China. Cunard ( talk) 04:57, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
Any objections if I move the technical software details about how the censorship is implemented to the more specific Great firewall of China? Rolf H Nelson ( talk) 03:49, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
Although cited to CNN which does indeed say "The apparatus of China's Internet control is considered more extensive and more advanced than in any other country in the world.", I would question this on factual accuracy. It should be prefaced by something like "according to CNN" or some such, not just stated as objective encyclopedic truth.
North Korea's censorship is far more restrictive than China. And rather advanced with a custom built browser. And most people don't have access to it at all. Internet in North Korea.
And there are much fewer alternative news sources also than in China. Can't use mobile phones to other countries. Only one TV channel a few hours a day in the evening. Only one newspaper.
On North Korea:
"In 2006, Julien Pain, head of the Internet Desk at Reporters Without Borders, described North Korea as the world's worst Internet black hole, [1] in its list of the top 13 Internet enemies. [2]"
It might also be worth mentioning North Korea and doing a comparison.
As an immediate quick fix I will edit the lede to add "according to CNN". But it probably needs expanding a little. Any suggestions? Robert Walker ( talk) 07:10, 23 July 2018 (UTC)
The consensus is to keep the sentence but move it from the lead to the body of the article.
"Since May 2015, Chinese Wikipedia has been blocked in mainland China.[12][13][14][15] This was done after Wikipedia started to use HTTPS encryption which made selective censorship more difficult." I think it is unnecessary to keep and should be deleted because highlight Wikipedia is contrary to the statement that China has censored many websites and contents (Wikipedia already refered enough realiable source to prove this) and the sentence looks like China ONLY censored Wikipedia or ONLY actions to censor Wikipedia is special. Also, we have a page to talk about censorship of Wikipedia. Mariogoods ( talk) 10:58, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
I suggest there should be a history sub-header. Reading about the history of the Internet Censorship in China would be pretty interesting and would really contribute to the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by NomJay007 ( talk • contribs) 20:04, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
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