Leaked docs: Chinese network-monitoring provider Geedge Networks has sold Great Firewall-style censorship systems to at least four countries, including Pakistan
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How Microsoft has run a Chinese version of Bing since 2009, helping Beijing maintain its Great Firewall; China accounted for 1.8% of Microsoft's sales in 2020
The company's search engine does good business in China, a market Google and Facebook abandoned years ago.
How Twitter users in China have been circumventing the nation's Great Firewall and fighting spam to get footage of protests out to the rest of the world
Chinese users employ VPNs to get videos and images out of the country, while fighting spam — Why Tesla's China Ties Could Be a Problem for Twitter
Roskomnadzor says it is blocking Facebook in Russia, citing 26 cases of “discrimination against Russian media and information resources” since October 2020
Russia is being cut off from the rest of the online world … France 24 : Russia blocks Facebook over ‘discrimination’ of state media Brittany Bernstein / National Review : Kremlin Blocks Access to Face...
Research from four US and Canadian universities shows China's Great Firewall blocked ~311K domains, with ~41K seemingly by accident, between Apr. and Dec. 2020
Research from four US and Canadian universities shows that, from April to Dec. 2020, China's Great Firewall blocked ~311K domains, ~41K seemingly by accident
Catalin Cimpanu / The Record : Tweets: @therecord_media Tweets: @therecord_media : In the largest study of its kind, a team of academics from four US and Canadian universities said they were able to ...
India is targeting Amazon and Walmart ostensibly to protect SMBs, but in reality it is creating a protectionist economy that benefits select local tycoons
Andy Mukherjee / Bloomberg : Tweets: @andymukherjee70 , @parryravi , @d_s_thakur , @arisroussinos , @samerkamal , and @unraveaero Tweets: Andy Mukherjee / @andymukherjee70 : New Delhi's tool for targ...
If Reddit lands a $150M Tencent investment, they'd make strange bedfellows: Tencent helps build the Great Firewall; Reddit's product, banned in China, is speech
So Tencent either shouldn't adhere to Chinese censorship (very rich coming from US reporters)? Or Tencent shouldn't invest in non-China companies? https://gizmodo.com/... Ryan Ford / @theryanford : Th...
China's coders increasingly use Shadowsocks, an open source proxy tool, to bypass the Great Firewall as government cracks down on VPNs
This summer Chinese authorities deepened a crackdown on virtual private networks (VPNs)—tools that help internet users inside the mainland access the open, uncensored web.
Sub-Saharan African nations like Cameroon, Gambia, and the Republic of Congo increasingly use internet blackouts to stem protests
DAKAR, Senegal — Julius Ikena's trade business is at a standstill because he cannot make electronic payments to his partners. Tweets: @kenroth , @greatfirechina , @smith_jeffreyt , @aaronross6 , @albe...