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Internet censorship and surveillance has been tightly implemented in China that block social websites like Gmail, Google, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and others. The excessive censorship practices of the Great Firewall of China have now engulfed the VPN service providers as well. [clarification needed] Search engines
A majority of apps and websites blocked are the result of the companies not willing to follow the Chinese government's internet regulations on data collection and privacy, user-safety, guidelines and the type of content being shared, posted or hosted. This is a list of the most notable such blocked websites in the country (except Autonomous area) .
Algorithmic censorship. Online censorship by Facebook of algorithmic methods raises concerns including the surveillance of all instant communications and the use of machine learning systems with the potential for errors and biases. [10] Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's CEO and majority shareholder, published a memo on censorship.
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 ...
Internet censorship circumvention, also referred to as going over the wall (Chinese: 翻墙; pinyin: fān qiáng) or scientific browsing (Chinese: 科学上网; pinyin: kēxué shàngwǎng) in China, is the use of various methods and tools to bypass internet censorship.
China has been on the Internet intermittently since May 1989 and on a permanent basis since 20 April 1994, [1] although with heavily censored access. In 2008, China became the country with the largest population on the Internet and, as of 2024, has remained so. [2] : 18 As of July 2023, 1.05 billion (73.7% of the country's total population) use ...
Hanyu Pinyin. xiǎohóngshū. Gwoyeu Romatzyh. sheauhorngshu. Wade–Giles. hsiao 3 -hung 2 -shu 1. Xiaohongshu ( Chinese: 小红书; pinyin: xiǎohóngshū; lit. 'Little Red Book'), also known as RED, [1] [2] is a social media and e-commerce platform. It has been described as "China's answer to Instagram ", [3] and is sometimes referred to as ...
See also: Internet censorship in China. YouTube was first blocked in China for over five months from October 16, 2007 [7] to March 22, 2008. [8] It was blocked again from March 24, 2009, although a Foreign Ministry spokesperson would neither confirm nor deny whether YouTube had been blocked. [9]