China and the Internet
Date: April 19, 2005Source: Opennet Initiative
Unlike the filtering systems in many other countries, China’s filtering regime appears to be carried out at various control points and also to be changing over time. China operates the most extensive, technologically sophisticated, and broad-reaching system of Internet filtering in the world.
China’s intricate technical filtering regime is buttressed by an equally complex series of laws and regulations that control the access to and publication of material online.
However, ONI found that most major American media sites, such as CNN, MSNBC, and ABC, are generally available in China (though the BBC remains blocked). Moreover, most sites we tested in our global list’s human rights and anonymizer categories are accessible as well.
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