The great firewall of China : how to build and control an alternative version of the Internet / James Griffiths.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Griffiths, James T. (James Tomos), 1988- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internet--Political aspects--China.

Internet.

Freedom of speech--China.

Freedom of speech.

Censorship--China.

Censorship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : map

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

London, England : Zed Books, [2021]

Summary:

"China's 'Great Firewall' has evolved into the most sophisticated system of online censorship in the world. As the Chinese internet grows and online businesses thrive, speech is controlled, dissent quashed, and attempts to organise outside the official Communist Party are quickly stamped out. Updated throughout and available in paperback for the first time, The Great Firewall of China draws on James Griffiths' unprecedented access to the Great Firewall and the politicians, tech leaders, dissidents and hackers whose lives revolve around it. New chapters cover the suppression of information about the first outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, disinformation campaigns in response to the exposure of the persecution of Uyghur communities in Xinjiang and the crackdown against the Umbrella movement in Hong Kong."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Early Warnings

Part 1: Wall

1. Protests: Solidarity from Hong Kong to Tiananmen

2. Over the Wall: China's First Email and the Rise of the Online Censor

3. Nailing the Jello: Chinese Democracy and the Great Firewall

4. Enemy at the Gates: How Fear of Falun Gong Boosted the Firewall

5. Searching for an Opening: Google, Yahoo, and Silicon Valley's Moral Failing in China

Part 2: Shield

6. Along Came a Spider: Lu Wei Reigns in the Chinese Internet

7. Peak Traffic: Getting the Dalai Lama Online

8. Filtered: The Firewall Catches up with Da Cankao

9. Jumping the Wall: FreeGate, UltraSurf, and Falun Gong's Fight Against the Censors

10. Called to Account: Silicon Valley's Reckoning on Capitol Hill

Part 3: Sword

11. Uyghurs Online: Ilham Tohti and the birth of the Uyghur Internet

12. Shutdown: How to Take Twenty Million People Offline

13. Ghosts in the Machine: Chinese Hackers Expand the Firewall's Reach

14. NoGuGe: The Ignominious End of Google China

15. The Social Network: Weibo and the Last Free Speech Platform

16. Gorillas in the Mist: Exposing China's Hackers to the World

Part 4: War

17. Caught : The Death of the Uyghur Internet

18. Key Opinion Leader: How Chinese Trolls Go After Dissidents Overseas

19. Root and Stem: The Internet is More Vulnerable than You Think

20. The Censor at the UN: China's Undermining of Global Internet Freedoms

21. Sovereignty: When Xi Jinping Came for the Internet

22. Friends in Moscow: The Great Firewall Goes West

23. Plane Crash: China Helps Russia Bring Telegram to Heel

24. One App to Rule Them All: How WeChat Opened Up New Frontiers of Surveillance

25. Buttocks: Uganda's Internet Blackouts and Censorship Follow Beijing's Lead

Epilogue: Silicon Valley Won't Save You

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Previous edition: 2019.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781350257931

1350257931

9781350257924

1350257923

OCLC:

1267764906