China strengthens electronic communications censorship
If in China you speak on the phone and say the word “protest” (in English or Chinese), then the telephone connection will be automatically interrupted, writes the NY Times. So the local authorities are allegedly trying to respond to the wave of revolutions that swept through the Arab world and threatened to spread to China.
On Monday , Google launched the second crusade against China. She says that Chinese users "have been having difficulty accessing Gmail for several weeks, which is most likely the result of a government blockade." Users can go to their e-mail, but everything is slow and it is impossible to even send a letter or look at the address book.
“There’s no problem on our part, we’ve carefully investigated this,” a Google spokesman said. “This is a government lockout that is neatly designed to look like Gmail has problems.”
As you know, filtering Internet traffic is considered normal in China. All Western Internet companies are working closely with the communist government. Non-politically correct results are removed from Yahoo, Google and MSN search results. This applies to the usual search and search for pictures.
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China seems to have not resorted to such an elegant trick as shaping traffic from individual services. This is perhaps the first such case. The same with the forced interruption of telephone communication when pronouncing key phrases - this was not the case before.
According to numerous testimonies, in recent weeks, the authorities have significantly increased the censorship of electronic communications. For example, several VPN services have recently stopped working in the country. The owners of one of them, WiTopia , apologized to users from China and referred to the “increased number of blocking attempts”.
If earlier the “black list” of search queries included few words like the English word freedom , now there are new problems. For example, some users may access the website of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange only through a proxy server. For one day, the social network LinkedIn was completely blocked.
Facebook, YouTube and Twitter have been blocked in China for a long time, and this blocking will probably never be lifted. The government press says that these three services “played a role in creating social unrest” and are actually tools in the hands of the American government. Instead, China is actively creating alternative services - local video hosting, social networks and microblogging ( infographics of Chinese clones ).
On Monday , Google launched the second crusade against China. She says that Chinese users "have been having difficulty accessing Gmail for several weeks, which is most likely the result of a government blockade." Users can go to their e-mail, but everything is slow and it is impossible to even send a letter or look at the address book.
“There’s no problem on our part, we’ve carefully investigated this,” a Google spokesman said. “This is a government lockout that is neatly designed to look like Gmail has problems.”
As you know, filtering Internet traffic is considered normal in China. All Western Internet companies are working closely with the communist government. Non-politically correct results are removed from Yahoo, Google and MSN search results. This applies to the usual search and search for pictures.
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China seems to have not resorted to such an elegant trick as shaping traffic from individual services. This is perhaps the first such case. The same with the forced interruption of telephone communication when pronouncing key phrases - this was not the case before.
According to numerous testimonies, in recent weeks, the authorities have significantly increased the censorship of electronic communications. For example, several VPN services have recently stopped working in the country. The owners of one of them, WiTopia , apologized to users from China and referred to the “increased number of blocking attempts”.
If earlier the “black list” of search queries included few words like the English word freedom , now there are new problems. For example, some users may access the website of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange only through a proxy server. For one day, the social network LinkedIn was completely blocked.
Facebook, YouTube and Twitter have been blocked in China for a long time, and this blocking will probably never be lifted. The government press says that these three services “played a role in creating social unrest” and are actually tools in the hands of the American government. Instead, China is actively creating alternative services - local video hosting, social networks and microblogging ( infographics of Chinese clones ).
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/116080/
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