Censure Internet as a Popular republic of China

The Popular national assembly of the Popular republic of China voted laws on the censure of the Internet. With this law, the government set up various systems of censure, according to the FAIs, held by the provinces, of the company private or associations. This project has as a name Bouclier of gold . The special administrative areas of HongKong and Macao having their own legal system, these laws do not apply to it.

Concretely, this censure without equal in the world is checked by certain completely inaccessible sites, certain temporary censures but generally easily avoidable. In addition, the censure of Internet in China, on these some targeted subjects, and with the active co-operation of certain major actors of Western telecommunications (like Google or Yahoo) could not minimize the remainder of the accessible information, where the critic of the Chinese government exists indeed, as well as information sources equivalent to France on the rest of the world.

The large fire wall of China

The part Pare-feu of this sytème is known outside the continental China under the name of Grand Fire wall of China in double reference to its role of fire wall network and the great wall. Constituted of standard avoid-fires on the waiters proxy (footbridges Internet), this system blocks the contents by preventing certain addresses IP from being routées. When particular sites are required, this system engages selectively a method of poisoning DNS. However the government cannot examine the whole Internet at every moment, this method is thus limited.

Censure in images: Google.cn

The door of access to the Web, Google, exists in two versions: Google.com (Chinese language) and more recently Google.cn. The interfaces are similar and the two sites are accessible from China, although Google.com temporarily was already blocked. The test below, to do oneself, is a search for images on Tiananmen , this place historical is also the symbol of the repression of the pro-democratic movement in 1989.

Recherche with Chinese Google.com
Recherche with Google.cn
Recherche with Baidu.com, the Chinese search engine

Sites prone to the censure

A great number of site are prone to a censure limited in time. It is however difficult to give an exact list of it because the sites can be accessible in certain cities, and others not.

the news of foreign sources, especially the Web sites having forums. BBC News, HongKong news and Radio-canada.ca are very supervised.
the Web sites and information on:

the demonstrations pro democracy of the place Tiananmen in 1989
independence of the Tibetans and on the Dalai Lama
the independence of the Ouïghour S
the independence of Taiwan
the official site of the clandestine Catholic church
certain sites of Chinese abroad as Clouded Spoils

the site of Wikipédia in all the languages is blocked (in spite of a short unlocking in October 2006). In answer to Wikipédia, the Chinese search engine Baidu launched Baidu Baike, a kind of censured Chinese Wikipédia.
FreeBSD.org, now accessible, was blocked in the past (December 2005).
the site of the Shelly sand Gong and many sites having for subject the Shelly sand Gong
the site of Reporters without many borders
Blog S are also censured. Beijing wishes to drive the anonymous blogueurs. One counts 17,5 million blogueurs in RPC. According to Reporters without borders, 52 cyberdissidents are imprisoned to have revealed “secrecies of State

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