The Great Firewall of China : how to build and control an alternative version of the Internet
James Griffiths (Author)
"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
1 online resource (xv, 423 pages) : map
9781350257924, 9781350257931, 1350257923, 1350257931
1267764906
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 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 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 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