The Great Firewall of China: How to Build and Control an Alternative Version of the Internet

ISBN-13: 9781350265318 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 440 str.

James Griffiths

Opis

Updated throughout and in paperback for the first time, this is an essential exposé of the world's biggest and most sophisticated system of internet censorship.

Recenzje

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

Spis treści

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 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

O autorze

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).