03855cam a22005177i 4500 21271556 BJBSDDR 20240430160116.0 ta 181122s2019 enkb b 001 0 eng d 2019401294 9781786995353 (hardback) 1786995352 (hardback) (OCoLC)on1040998629 YDX eng YDX rda OCLCQ CDX eng lccopycat a-cc--- Z 658 G855g 2019 302.231/0951 Griffiths, James T. (James Tomos), 1988- 34871 The great firewall of China : how to build and control an alternative version of the internet / James Griffiths. How to build and control an alternative version of the internet London : Zed Books, 2019. xiii, 385 pages : 1 map ; 25 cm text txt rdacontent cartographic image cri rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-373) and index. Introduction: Early warnings. Part one. Wall. Protests: solidarity from Hong Kong to Tiananmen -- Over the wall: China's first email and the rise of the online censor -- Nailing the jello: Chinese democracy and the Great Firewall -- Enemy at the gates: how fear of Falun Gong boosted the Firewall -- Searching for an opening: Google, Yahoo and Silicon Valley's moral failing in China -- Part two. Shield. Along came a spider: Lu Wei reins in the Chinese internet -- Peak traffic: Getting the Dalai Lama online -- Filtered: The firewall catches up with Da Cankao -- Jumping the wall: FreeGate, UltraSurf, and Falun Gong's fight against the censors -- Called to account: Silicon Valley's reckoning on Capitol Hill -- Part three. Sword. Uyghurs online: Ilham Tohti and the birth of the Uyghur internet -- Shutdown: how to take 20 million people offline -- Ghosts in the machine: Chinese hackers expand the Firewall's reach -- NoGuGe: The ignominious end of Google China -- The social network: Weibo and the last free-speech platform -- Gorillas in the mist: Exposing China's hackers to the world -- Part four. War. Caught: the death of the Uyghur internet -- Key opinion leader: how Chinese trolls go after dissidents overseas -- Root and stem: the internet is more vulnerable than you think -- The censor at the UN: China's undermining of global internet freedoms -- Sovereignty: when Xi Jinping came for the internet -- Friends in Moscow: the Great Firewall goes west -- Plane crash: China helps Russia bring Telegram to heel -- One app to rule them all: how WeChat opened up new frontiers of surveillance and censorship -- Buttocks: Uganda's internet blackouts follow Beijing's lead -- Epilogue: Silicon Valley won't save you. Griffiths exposes the world's biggest and most sophisticated system of internet censorship. He describes how China did the impossible and built a controlled, warped version of the internet. Griffiths also explains how the vision of the web as a force for democracy and freedom failed, and the censors, far from retreating, are on the advance. Internet Political aspects China. Internet Aspectos políticos China 1308 Freedom of speech China. Libertad de expresión China 5373 Censorship China. Censura China 5492 Internet Government policy China. Internet Política gubernamental China 29086 7 cbc copycat 3 ncip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK sba 120883 120883 0 0 lcc 0 0 CM BJB BJB HU 2024-03-20 0 Z 658 G855g 2019 00000177320 2024-03-20 00:00:00 1 2024-03-20 BK