Great Firewall of China (eBook)

How to Build and Control an Alternative Version of the Internet

James Griffiths (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
400 Seiten
Zed Books (Verlag)
978-1-78699-538-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Exposing the world’s biggest and most sophisticated system of internet censorship

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'Readers will come away startled at just how fragile the online infrastructure we all depend on is and how much influence China wields both technically and politically' Jason Q. Ng, author of Blocked on Weibo'An urgent and much needed reminder about how China's quest for cyber sovereignty is undermining global Internet freedom' Kristie Lu Stout, CNN'An important and incisive history of the Chinese internet that introduces us to the government officials, business leaders, and technology activists struggling over access to information within the Great Firewall' Adam M. Segal, author of The Hacked World OrderOnce little more than a glorified porn 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. Through years of investigation James Griffiths gained unprecedented access to the Great Firewall and the politicians, tech leaders, dissidents and hackers whose lives revolve around it. As distortion, post-truth and fake news become old news James Griffiths shows just how far the Great Firewall has spread. Now is the time for a radical new vision of online liberty.

Autor

lt;p>James Griffiths is a reporter and producer for CNN International, currently based in Hong Kong. He has reported from Hong Kong, China, South Korea and Australia for outlets including the Atlantic, Vice and the Daily Beast. He was previously a reporter and assistant editor at the South China Morning Post, where he played a key role in the paper’s award winning coverage of the 2014 Umbrella Movement protests in Hong Kong.

Inhalt

• 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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.3.2019
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Web / Internet
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Wirtschaftsinformatik
• Schlagworte: chinese surveillance • chinese surveillance in xinjiang • data surveillance • enemies of the internet • freedom of press essay • freedom of press limitations • freedom on the net 2019 • full meaning of internet • history of internet • internet freedom • internet freedom decline • internet freedom ranking • internet freedom score • methods of surveillance • personal freedom in the age of the internet • Press Freedom • Press Freedom Index • Public Surveillance • Surveillance • surveillance capitalism • surveillance companies • surveillance state • Surveillance system • Surveillance technology • types of surveillance • world internet freedom rank
• ISBN-10: 1-78699-538-7 / 1786995387
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78699-538-4 / 9781786995384