James Griffiths

The Great Firewall of China (eBook, PDF)

How to Build and Control an Alternative Version of the Internet

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350257931
• Artikelnr.: 62529746

Autorenporträt

James Griffiths is Asia Correspondent at the Globe and Mail, currently based in Hong Kong. He was previously a senior producer at CNN International, where he reported on the ground from Hong Kong, China, South Korea, Sri Lanka and Malaysia. He is the author of Speak Not: Empire, Identity and the Politics of Language (Zed Books, 2021).

Inhaltsangabe

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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

Rezensionen

In this vividly reported narrative, James Griffiths describes exactly how China managed to control the Internet. Foreign Affairs