3 posts and columns on Great Firewall of China

Google Shutters Google.cn

in News on March 22, 2010 at 12:08 pm PT

Google has finally adopted the “New Approach to China” that it announced back in January, making good on its threat to end censorship of its services in the country. Earlier today, the company begun redirecting Internet traffic away from its Chinese-language site at google.cn to google.com.hk in Hong Kong.

Millions of Chinese Twitter Users Suddenly Unaware That I Dislike Ramen

in News on June 2, 2009 at 10:19 am PT

If China wants to correct the “false impression” that it fears the Internet, ending its repressive and paranoid blocking of Web services would be a good place to start. This morning Beijing extended the Great Firewall of China, restricting Internet access to Twitter, Flickr, Hotmail and Bing, among others.
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