Sunday, June 09, 2019

The Great Firewall of China

Gerry Shih reports in the Ct Post that the Washington Post and Guardian have been added to China's "Great Firewall" of banned websites.
Outlets such as Bloomberg, the New York Times, Reuters and the Wall Street Journal have been blocked for years. So have social media services such as Facebook and Twitter and all Google-owned services, including YouTube. Other popular services such as Dropbox, Slack and WhatsApp are also prohibited.

...The extensive censorship software now blocks more than 10,000 Web domains and is powered by artificial intelligence algorithms that tirelessly sharpen its ability to sniff out VPNs.
Read more here.

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