Heteroactivism : resisting lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans rights and equalities / Catherine Jean Nash and Kath Browne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nash, Catherine J., author.

Browne, Kath, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heterosexism--Political aspects.

Heterosexism.

Heterosexism--Social aspects.

Homophobia.

Sexual minorities--Social conditions.

Sexual minorities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 346 pages) : illustrations.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

Other Title:

Resisting lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans rights and equalities

Place of Publication:

London, England : Zed Books, 2020.

Summary:

"Once little more than a glorified porn filter, 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. But the effects of the Great Firewall are not confined to China itself. Through years of investigation James Griffiths gained unprecedented access to the Great Firewall and the politicians, tech leaders, dissidents and hackers whose lives revolve around it. As distortion, post-truth and fake news become old news James Griffiths shows just how far the Great Firewall has spread. Now is the time for a radical new vision of online liberty"--Publisher's website

Contents:

Introduction: Early warnings. Wall. Protests : solidarity from Hong Kong to Tiananmen

Over the wall : China's first email and the rise of the online censor

Nailing the jello : Chinese democracy and the Great Firewall

Enemy at the gates : how fear of Falun Gong boosted the Firewall

Searching for an opening : Google, Yahoo and Silicon Valley's moral failing in China

Shield. Along came a spider : Lu Wei reins in the Chinese internet

Peak traffic : Getting the Dalai Lama online

Filtered : The firewall catches up with Da Cankao

Jumping the wall : FreeGate, UltraSurf, and Falun Gong's fight against the censors

Called to account : Silicon Valley's reckoning on Capitol Hill

Sword. Uyghurs online : Ilham Tohti and the birth of the Uyghur internet

Shutdown : how to take 20 million people offline

Ghosts in the machine : Chinese hackers expand the Firewall's reach

NoGuGe : the ignominious end of Google China

The social network : Weibo and the last free-speech platform

Gorillas in the mist : exposing China's hackers to the world

War. Caught : the death of the Uyghur internet

Key opinion leader : how Chinese trolls go after dissidents overseas

Root and stem : the internet is more vulnerable than you think

The censor at the UN : China's undermining of global internet freedoms

Sovereignty : when Xi Jinping came for the internet

Friends in Moscow : the Great Firewall goes west

Plane crash : China helps Russia bring Telegram to heel

One app to rule them all : how WeChat opened up new frontiers of surveillance and censorship

Buttocks : Uganda's internet blackouts follow Beijing's lead

Epilogue: Silicon Valley won't save you.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-337) and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9781350225510

1350225517

9781786996480

1786996480

9781350225503

1350225509

9781786996473

1786996472

OCLC:

1226712714