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Wikipedia, Facebook, Google, and other sites normally blocked in China. ^ abcdJun Mai (22 June 2018). "Chinese holiday island to unlock Facebook, Twitter for foreigners". South China Morning Post. Hong Kong. Archived from the original on 25 June 2018. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
In China, Facebook was blocked following the July 2009 Ürümqi riots because protestors with the East Turkestan independence movement were using Facebook as part of their communications network to organize attacks across the city; Facebook refused to release the protestor identities and information to the Chinese government. [16]
For one month beginning 17 November 2014, ProPublica tested whether the homepages of 18 international news organizations were accessible to browsers inside China, and found the most consistently blocked were Bloomberg News, The New York Times, South China Morning Post, The Wall Street Journal, Facebook, and Twitter. [111]
Internet censorship circumvention. Internet censorship circumvention, also referred to as going over the wall (Chinese: 翻墙; pinyin: fān qiáng) [1][2] or scientific browsing (Chinese: 科学上网; pinyin: kēxué shàngwǎng) [3] in China, is the use of various methods and tools to bypass internet censorship. There are many different ...
a list of "Corporate Enemies of the Internet", companies that sell products that are liable to be used by governments to violate human rights and freedom of information. The five "State Enemies of the Internet" named in March 2013 are: Bahrain, China, Iran, Syria, and Vietnam.
[56] [better source needed] China blocked Facebook in 2009 following the Ürümqi riots. [57] In 2009, Yuri Milner's DST (which later split into DST Global and Mail.ru Group), alongside Uzbek Russian metals magnate Alisher Usmanov, invested $200 million in Facebook when it was valued at $10 billion.
In Germany, Facebook actively censors anti-immigrant speech, claiming they are reviewing posts more stringently and using legal opinions and language experts to determine whether users' comments are infringing on German law. [1][2][3] In May 2016, Facebook and other technology companies agreed to a new "code of conduct" by the European ...
Censorship in the People's Republic of China (PRC) is mandated by the country's ruling party, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It is one of the strictest censorship regimes in the world. [1] The government censors content for mainly political reasons, such as curtailing political opposition, and censoring events unfavorable to the CCP, such ...