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Alibaba Cloud Helps Chinese Students, Foreign Schools Scale Great Firewall
China’s Alibaba Group plans to help local students as well as foreign universities skirt the country’s strict Web controls. The nation’s Great Firewall not only blocks websites deemed sensitive by the government, but also slows loading speeds of overseas sites.
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"All The Forces": China's Global Social Media Push Over Hong Kong Protests
While little news or video footage of the Hong Kong protests made its way into mainland China in the early weeks, the subject now dominates the news and most-read topic lists on China's Twitter-like Weibo, with calls for Chinese citizens to take action to "protect Hong Kong".
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Bing’s Day-Long Outage in China Believed to Be Technical Error, Not Censors' Block
Search engine Bing's outage in China last week was reportedly a technical error, rather than an intentional censorship block.
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Microsoft Bing Search Engine Inaccessible in China
Microsoft's Bing search engine was inaccessible in China on Thursday, with social media users fearing it could be the latest foreign website to be blocked by censors.
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US President Trump 'Will Tweet What He Wants' Inside China's Great Firewall
President Donald Trump will not curtail his notorious Twitter missives during his visit to China even though the social media platform is blocked by a "Great Firewall", a US official said Wednesday.
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Apple's China Problem Highlights Conundrum for Tech Sector
"There is a belief that millennials really want companies to be more active in protecting people's rights and free speech."
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Speaks Up About Removal of VPN Apps in China
"We would obviously rather not remove the apps, but like in other countries, we obey the laws where we do business," Cook said.
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Amazon China Partner Tells Users to Stop Using Illegal VPNs
The instruction comes after Apple removed VPN services from its Chinese app store over the weekend.
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China Clamping Down on Use of VPNs to Evade Great Firewall
Beijing has repeatedly pressured foreign companies to hand over technology, encryption know-how and other trade secrets in exchange for access to its huge and growing market.
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WhatsApp Disruption Reported by China Users Amid Censorship Fears
WhatsApp users in China reported Tuesday on other social media platforms that the app was partly inaccessible.
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Has China Now Raised the Great Firewall Too High?
A VPN ban would both upset that balance and endanger several prized government initiatives designed to foster a more innovative Chinese economy.
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China Said to Instruct Telcos to Block Access to VPN Networks
China's government has told telecommunications carriers to block individuals' access to virtual private networks by February 1, people familiar with the matter said.
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China Calls For United Internet Front To Fight Hacking, Surveillance And Cyber Arms Race
China's President Xi Jinping laid out his vision for the Internet today, calling for respect of different governance models and standardised online security, placing China at the front of debates on online control and sovereignty.
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China's Cyber Chief Defends Censorship Ahead of Internet Conference
This year China is upping the scale of the event, to be held from December 16-18.
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Google 'Alphabet' Website Blocked in China on First Day
Tech geeks in China looking to understand Google's newly unveiled corporate structure is out of luck: the website of the new parent company, dubbed Alphabet, was blocked less than 24 hours after going live.
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Alibaba Cloud Helps Chinese Students, Foreign Schools Scale Great Firewall
China’s Alibaba Group plans to help local students as well as foreign universities skirt the country’s strict Web controls. The nation’s Great Firewall not only blocks websites deemed sensitive by the government, but also slows loading speeds of overseas sites.
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"All The Forces": China's Global Social Media Push Over Hong Kong Protests
While little news or video footage of the Hong Kong protests made its way into mainland China in the early weeks, the subject now dominates the news and most-read topic lists on China's Twitter-like Weibo, with calls for Chinese citizens to take action to "protect Hong Kong".
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Bing’s Day-Long Outage in China Believed to Be Technical Error, Not Censors' Block
Search engine Bing's outage in China last week was reportedly a technical error, rather than an intentional censorship block.
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Microsoft Bing Search Engine Inaccessible in China
Microsoft's Bing search engine was inaccessible in China on Thursday, with social media users fearing it could be the latest foreign website to be blocked by censors.
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US President Trump 'Will Tweet What He Wants' Inside China's Great Firewall
President Donald Trump will not curtail his notorious Twitter missives during his visit to China even though the social media platform is blocked by a "Great Firewall", a US official said Wednesday.
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Apple's China Problem Highlights Conundrum for Tech Sector
"There is a belief that millennials really want companies to be more active in protecting people's rights and free speech."
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Speaks Up About Removal of VPN Apps in China
"We would obviously rather not remove the apps, but like in other countries, we obey the laws where we do business," Cook said.
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Amazon China Partner Tells Users to Stop Using Illegal VPNs
The instruction comes after Apple removed VPN services from its Chinese app store over the weekend.
-
China Clamping Down on Use of VPNs to Evade Great Firewall
Beijing has repeatedly pressured foreign companies to hand over technology, encryption know-how and other trade secrets in exchange for access to its huge and growing market.
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WhatsApp Disruption Reported by China Users Amid Censorship Fears
WhatsApp users in China reported Tuesday on other social media platforms that the app was partly inaccessible.
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Has China Now Raised the Great Firewall Too High?
A VPN ban would both upset that balance and endanger several prized government initiatives designed to foster a more innovative Chinese economy.
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China Said to Instruct Telcos to Block Access to VPN Networks
China's government has told telecommunications carriers to block individuals' access to virtual private networks by February 1, people familiar with the matter said.
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China Calls For United Internet Front To Fight Hacking, Surveillance And Cyber Arms Race
China's President Xi Jinping laid out his vision for the Internet today, calling for respect of different governance models and standardised online security, placing China at the front of debates on online control and sovereignty.
-
China's Cyber Chief Defends Censorship Ahead of Internet Conference
This year China is upping the scale of the event, to be held from December 16-18.
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Google 'Alphabet' Website Blocked in China on First Day
Tech geeks in China looking to understand Google's newly unveiled corporate structure is out of luck: the website of the new parent company, dubbed Alphabet, was blocked less than 24 hours after going live.
