The Great Firewall of China
How to Build and Control an Alternative Version of the Internet
by James Griffiths
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in About China, Politics, and Social Sciences.
Once little more than a glorified porn filter, China?s ?Great Firewall? has evolved into the most sophisticated system of online censorship in the world. Even as the Chinese internet grows and online businesses thrive, speech is controlled, dissent quashed, and any attempts to organise outside the official Communist Party are quickly stamped out. B...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in About China, Politics, and Social Sciences.
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Timothy Burke
“Time again to recommend the excellent @jgriffiths book that explores in some great detail U.S. corporations' efforts to help China crack down on democracy:”
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