ISBN:
9781350257924
,
1350257923
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (386 Seiten)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Griffiths, James The Great Firewall of China
DDC:
302.2310951
Keywords:
Electronic books
;
China
;
Internet
;
Firewall
;
Zensur
;
Kontrolle
;
Uiguren
;
WeChat
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Author's note -- Acronyms and abbreviations -- Map -- 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 reins in the Chinese internet
Abstract:
7. Peak traffic: Getting the Dalai Lama online -- 8. Filtered: The Firewall catches up with -- 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 20 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
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
24. One app to rule them all: How WeChat opened up new frontiers of surveillance and censorship -- 25. Buttocks: Uganda's internet blackouts follow China's lead -- 26. Swatting flies: Google's failed attempt to get back into China -- 27. Propaganda war: Beijing's attempts to control the narrative over Xinjiang -- 28. Fighting rumours: How the coronavirus pandemic exposed the danger of the Great Firewall -- Epilogue: The Great Firewall looms over Hong Kong -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
URL:
https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350225497?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
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