The Great Firewall in China

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As the incident was becoming a mass consumer product in china, it was also becoming a censored form of communications. There were limited access points between the very, very rudimentary chinese insenet at the time and the global intenet. So it was quite easy for them to go in and put in controls, put in filters and fire wallsand an start censoring stuff. But then as people started to realize that things were getting blocked, and they worked to to get around those blocks by using proxy servers,. then the firewall starts o get more sophisticated. Yo have the de packet inspection, which can look not just at the web sights and the ip addresses that have been access but also

Once little more than a pornography filter, 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. But the effects of the Great Firewall are not confined to China itself. In this week's episode James Griffiths tells Carl Miller about his years of investigation into the Great Firewall and the politicians, tech leaders, dissidents and hackers whose lives revolve around it. To pre-order the new version of James's book book click here: https://amzn.to/3xVi6qK For FREE access to our live recording with Jude Law on Wednesday 18 click here and enter promo code 'PODCAST' at the checkout: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jude-law-how-i-found-my-voice-registration-166901469789

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