Release Ai Weiwei
Tate Modern has posted this message of support for the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, who was detained on Sunday at Beijing Airport, on its façade. The…
Read articleHow The Great Firewall of China Works
The “Great Firewall of China” (GFW), officially know as the Golden Shield Project (金盾工程), is the system which filters, blocks and censors the flow of information…
Read articleHong Kong Cell Carriers Complicit in Chinese Censorship
A friend of mine noticed something odd while visiting Hong Kong last weekend. Despite Hong Kong not being subject to the heavy internet blocks and censorship…
Read articleGoogle Goes Nuclear on China
Google dropped a bomb on China and the world today when it revealed a string of sophisticated cyber attacks against its infrastructure targeted against human rights activists’ email accounts which had originated from China…
Read articleTunnel Through the GFW with 12vpn
After the Beijing 2008 Olympics most people anticipated that internet censorship in China would ease but contrary to expectations the situation continues to get worse with…
Read articleObserving the Great Firewall
I recently compiled a list of popular English language sites which are currently blocked, or have been at some point in the past, in China (you…
Read articleHow To Bypass The Great Firewall of China
If you ever wanted to know what it feels like living in the dark ages come to China right about now. Seemingly in timing with the…
Read articleOde To The Great Firewall
Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 updated for 21st Century China (and my current mood): Photo by wvs Oh Great Firewall shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?…
Read articleChinese Economic Crisis Comics
The world economic crisis created in America is having knock-on effects around the world. As people in the west stop spending so the demand for manufactured…
Read articleWitopia Personal VPN
Last year I talked about using Tor to bypass the internet censorship in China but the problem is that it’s painfully slow, almost to the point…
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