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Retrieved 1 July 2024. China's "Great Firewall" is one of many impossible to breach through of the world's most comprehensive internet censorship regimes, preventing citizens from accessing websites like Instagram, Wikipedia and YouTube. ^ a b "China's Facebook Status: Blocked".
Censorship of Twitter. Countries and territories which have blocked Twitter: Currently blocked. Formerly blocked. Partially blocked. Not blocked. Censorship of Twitter refers to Internet censorship by governments that block access to Twitter (officially known as X since July 2023).
The American television show South Park was banned from China in 2019 and any mention of it was removed from almost all sites on the Chinese Internet, after criticizing China's government and censorship in season 23 episode, "Band in China". Series creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone later issued a mock apology. [187] [188]
Among those is X, which has been blocked in China since 2009. Authorities in Beijing made the move to block access to the app, then known as Twitter, just days before the 20th anniversary of the ...
YouTube. YouTube is fully blocked in all of mainland China and will be for the foreseeable future. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ccvortex ( talk • contribs) 09:18, 8 January 2013 (UTC)[ reply] I was in China in October, 2007, and I was able to access YouTube in Beijing, Xi'an, Chengdu, Chongqing, and Shanghai.
The Great Firewall (GFW; simplified Chinese: 防火长城; traditional Chinese: 防火長城; pinyin: Fánghuǒ Chángchéng) is the combination of legislative actions and technologies enforced by the People's Republic of China to regulate the Internet domestically. [1] Its role in internet censorship in China is to block access to selected ...
Censorship in the People's Republic of China (PRC) is mandated by the country's ruling party, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It is one of the strictest censorship regimes in the world. [1] The government censors content for mainly political reasons, such as curtailing political opposition, and censoring events unfavorable to the CCP, such ...
As of April 2019, all versions of Wikipedia are blocked in mainland China under the Great Firewall. [7] [8] [9] The Chinese Wikipedia was launched in May 2001. [10] Wikipedia received positive coverage in China's state press in early 2004 but was blocked on 3 June 2004, ahead of the 15th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and ...