The techniques deployed by the Chinese government to maintain control of the Great Firewall can include modifying search results for terms, such as they did following Ai Weiwei’s arrest, and petitioning global conglomerates to remove content, as happened when they petitioned Apple to remove the Quartz business news publication’s app from its Chinese App Store after reporting on the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests. īesides censorship, the Great Firewall has also influenced the development of China's internal internet economy by giving preference to domestic companies and reducing the effectiveness of products from foreign internet companies. Requiring foreign companies to adapt to domestic regulations. Google Search, Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, and others) and mobile apps, and The effect includes: limiting access to foreign information sources, blocking foreign internet tools (e.g. If one link is closed, more links from the same machine will be blocked by the Great Firewall. If the keywords or sensitive words appear in the TCP packets, access will be closed. The Great Firewall operates by checking transmission control protocol (TCP) packets for keywords or sensitive words. Its role in internet censorship in China is to block access to selected foreign websites and to slow down cross-border internet traffic.

The Great Firewall ( GFW simplified Chinese: 防火长城 traditional Chinese: 防火長城 pinyin: Fánghuǒ Chángchéng) is the combination of legislative actions and technologies enforced by the People's Republic of China to regulate the Internet domestically. Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence.Visa policy of China ( Hong Kong Macau).Visa requirements for Chinese citizens ( Hong Kong, Macau).State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs.International Military Cooperation Office.

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