#greatfirewall — Public Fediverse posts

EU Signals Possible VPN Crackdown, Triggering Fierce Backlash

Western European governments and EU institutions are increasingly moving toward tighter regulation of VPNs as part of a…
#Europe #EU #EuropeanCommission #ageverificationapp #Censorship #ChatControl #China #DigitalServicesAct #EuropeanUnion #GreatFirewall #HennaVirkkunen #internetcontrol #prohibition #restriction #VPN #VPNnetworks #West
https://www.europesays.com/europe/29805/

🚫🔒 "Access Denied" – CNBC's cutting-edge #journalism on China's latest chess move against #Meta gets blocked faster than you can say "Great Firewall." Because who needs actual content when you can just enjoy the endless loop of error messages? 📉😂
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/27/meta-manus-china-blocks-acquisition-ai-startup.html #AccessDenied #GreatFirewall #China #ErrorMessages #HackerNews #ngated

and there the 10min #handmade #techno #music version
"they can make your (hand hair head) clap" ?
#pdsoloz29 #art #artists #lol #china https://www.instagram.com/pdsoloz29/ somehow they managed to get around the #greatfirewall btw #tor #tornetwork seems to be highly throttled in many countries such as #italy !!! #cecorship in the #EU as well

and there the 10min #handmade #techno #music version
"they can make your (hand hair head) clap" ?
#pdsoloz29 #art #artists #lol #china https://www.instagram.com/pdsoloz29/ somehow they managed to get around the #greatfirewall btw #tor #tornetwork seems to be highly throttled in many countries such as #italy !!! #cecorship in the #EU as well

and there the 10min #handmade #techno #music version
"they can make your (hand hair head) clap" ?
#pdsoloz29 #art #artists #lol #china https://www.instagram.com/pdsoloz29/ somehow they managed to get around the #greatfirewall btw #tor #tornetwork seems to be highly throttled in many countries such as #italy !!! #cecorship in the #EU as well

and there the 10min #handmade #techno #music version
"they can make your (hand hair head) clap" ?
#pdsoloz29 #art #artists #lol #china https://www.instagram.com/pdsoloz29/ somehow they managed to get around the #greatfirewall btw #tor #tornetwork seems to be highly throttled in many countries such as #italy !!! #cecorship in the #EU as well

and there the 10min #handmade #techno #music version
"they can make your (hand hair head) clap" ?
#pdsoloz29 #art #artists #lol #china https://www.instagram.com/pdsoloz29/ somehow they managed to get around the #greatfirewall btw #tor #tornetwork seems to be highly throttled in many countries such as #italy !!! #cecorship in the #EU as well

#music #handmade #beautiful and #cool #bestof #pdsoloz29 #art #artists #lol #china #coverversion https://www.instagram.com/pdsoloz29/ somehow they managed to get around the #greatfirewall btw #tor #tornetwork seems to be highly throttled in many countries such as #italy !!! #cecorship in the #EU as well

#music #handmade #beautiful and #cool #bestof #pdsoloz29 #art #artists #lol #china #coverversion https://www.instagram.com/pdsoloz29/ somehow they managed to get around the #greatfirewall btw #tor #tornetwork seems to be highly throttled in many countries such as #italy !!! #cecorship in the #EU as well

#music #handmade #beautiful and #cool #bestof #pdsoloz29 #art #artists #lol #china #coverversion https://www.instagram.com/pdsoloz29/ somehow they managed to get around the #greatfirewall btw #tor #tornetwork seems to be highly throttled in many countries such as #italy !!! #cecorship in the #EU as well

#music #handmade #beautiful and #cool #bestof #pdsoloz29 #art #artists #lol #china #coverversion https://www.instagram.com/pdsoloz29/ somehow they managed to get around the #greatfirewall btw #tor #tornetwork seems to be highly throttled in many countries such as #italy !!! #cecorship in the #EU as well

#music #handmade #beautiful and #cool #bestof #pdsoloz29 #art #artists #lol #china #coverversion https://www.instagram.com/pdsoloz29/ somehow they managed to get around the #greatfirewall btw #tor #tornetwork seems to be highly throttled in many countries such as #italy !!! #cecorship in the #EU as well

The Internet now feels like if we were on #China, where laws like #AgeVerification are like the #GreatFirewall and the VPN to bypass it are IDs and actual VPNs.

Bart Preneel wrote in the print edition of De Standaard: Europe’s push for mandatory online age checks risks a 'Great Firewall.' Protecting youth is vital, but mass verification threatens #privacy, digital inclusion, and freedom, and is easy to bypass. Experts call for a moratorium.
Paywall: https://www.standaard.be/opinies/verplichte-leeftijdsverificatie-zal-in-big-brother-eindigen/138170707.html
#greatfirewall #chatcontrol

Saw on #LinkedIn a European tech expert claiming that the #US is "by far the worst in the world in terms of privacy violations"

I honestly feel like #Asia doesn't exist to a lot of Europeans. Do they really not know how bad privacy and data laws are in many countries here? Have they not heard of the #GreatFirewall or how #Chinese users have basically zero data privacy?

Lots to critique in the US and of big tech, but that's not the way to do it.

Need more testing but it seems that international roaming data bypass the #greatfirewall

I can't connect to Telegram from airport WiFi but no issues when I switch to roaming mobile data

First time flying a Chinese airline, their air marshalls are in uniform and walking the aisle.

China Eastern's inflight magazine is 216 pages

Happy to know that #mastadon works behind the #greatfirewall

🚨Breaking: #China, a country famous for its gentle embrace of free thought, is now worried #AI could threaten their delicate grip on power. 😂 The Party's taking a break from building the Great Firewall 2.0 to figure out how to tame their unruly digital offspring. 🤖💼
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/china-is-worried-ai-threatens-party-ruleand-is-trying-to-tame-it-bfdcda2d #Control #DigitalPower #GreatFirewall #NewsHumor #HackerNews #ngated

Our Head of Investigations & CISO, @danonsecurity, joined the CyberWire podcast for Research Saturday to discuss DomainTools Investigations’ GFW research.
Listen to the full interview⬇️
https://thecyberwire.com/podcasts/research-saturday/405/notes
#Cybersecurity #CyberWire #GreatFirewall #Podcast

🌎 Geopolitics and the Global Reach of the GFW
Part 3 of our series dives into the Geopolitical and Societal Ramifications, revealing how China projects digital control abroad.
🧵 Read the final report: https://dti.domaintools.com/inside-the-great-firewall-part-3-geopolitical-and-societal-ramifications/

#GlobalPolitics #ThreatIntel #China #GreatFirewall

"Over the past two decades, the Chinese government has been steadily refining their model of internet control using surveillance and censorship technologies domestically while promoting this approach to other nations under the banner of 'digital sovereignty'."

@interseclab, 2025

https://interseclab.org/research/the-internet-coup/

(1/2)

#InternetGovernance #GreatFirewall #DigitalAuthoritarianism #GeedgeNetworks

Bien bien (chuuuut)...

J'ai testé tous les résolveurs #DNS alternatifs en #DoH de l'excellente page de @sebsauvage et ceux qui passent le #GreatFirewall of #China sont au nombre de quatre seulement:

La @FDN
http://ns0.fdn.fr/dns-query
http://ns1.fdn.fr/dns-query

DNSForge.de
https://clean.dnsforge.de/dns-query

DNS4all.eu
https://doh.dns4all.eu/dns-query

[Edit]:
ILOTH
https://ns0.iloth.net/

Attention, testé sur China Unicom uniquement. À venir: China Telecom et China Mobile. Après on regardera le DoT.

@bortzmeyer

Testé pour vous, les résolveurs #DNS ouverts de @FDN , Fournisseur d'Accès à Internet associatif depuis 1992 permettent de bypasser le #GreatFirewall of #China sans #VPN dans Firefox et Chromium:

ns0.fdn.fr
ns1.fdn.fr

https://ns0.fdn.fr/dns-query https://ns1.fdn.fr/dns-query

(Ne le crions pas trop fort, ça risque de ne pas durer).

https://www.fdn.fr/actions/dns/

Poke @bortzmeyer et @sebsauvage pour leur travail incessant

https://www.europesays.com/uk/513872/ How iPhone Air’s eSIM debut reshapes China’s telecoms landscape #Apple #AppleIntelligence #ChinaAcademyOfInformationAndCommunicationsTechnology #ChinaMobile #ChinaTelecom #ChinaUnicom #eSIM #GreatFireWall #GreatFirewall #GuoTianxiang #Huawei #HuaweiTechnologies #IDCChina #iPhone #IPhone17 #IPhoneAir #Mobile #MobileCarrier #MobileCarriers #MobilePhone #oppo #SIMCard #SIMCards #smartphone #Technology #Telecoms #TimCook #UK #UnitedKingdom #ZengLingping

Geedge Networks (587 GB)

Internal documentation and source code from Geedge Networks, a company that has sold internet surveillance and censorship systems to Myanmar, Ethiopia, Kazakhstan, and Pakistan. #GreatFirewall

https://ddosecrets.org/article/geedge-networks

Help us keep publishing: https://donorbox.org/supporting-ddosecrets-in-2025

How #China’s #Propaganda and #Surveillance Systems Really Operate
Leaked documents have pulled back curtain on how digital #censorship tools are being marketed and exported globally. #GeedgeNetworks sells what amounts to a commercialized “#GreatFirewall” to at least Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Ethiopia, and Myanmar. The groundbreaking leak shows in granular detail the capabilities this company has to monitor, intercept, and hack internet traffic.
https://www.wired.com/story/made-in-china-how-chinas-surveillance-industry-actually-works/
https://archive.ph/sz63S

Wer noch nicht weiß, was ein überspezifisches Dementi ist, findet hier ein schönes Beispiel:

2015 enthüllte etwa die NGO Privacy International, dass Pakistan Überwachungstechnologien deutscher Unternehmen nutzte. Bereits damals war die massive Überwachungswut des Landes bekannt. Eines der deutschen Unternehmen, Utimaco, soll Medienberichten zufolge auch in Myanmar aktiv gewesen sein. Auf Anfrage hieß es von Utimaco, das Unternehmen habe stets alle Gesetze und Vorschriften eingehalten. Außerdem hätte man niemals direkte Geschäfte mit einem der Mobilfunknetzbetreiber in Myanmar getätigt.

https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000286721/wie-china-seine-great-firewall-ins-ausland-exportiert

#Geedge #GreatFirewall #China #Pakistan #Kasachstan #Äthiopien #Myanmar #Burma #Massenüberwachung #Utimaco #Sandvine #Applogic #VPN #Tor #NetBlocks #InternetSperren #Medienkompetenz

Wer noch nicht weiß, was ein überspezifisches Dementi ist, findet hier ein schönes Beispiel:

2015 enthüllte etwa die NGO Privacy International, dass Pakistan Überwachungstechnologien deutscher Unternehmen nutzte. Bereits damals war die massive Überwachungswut des Landes bekannt. Eines der deutschen Unternehmen, Utimaco, soll Medienberichten zufolge auch in Myanmar aktiv gewesen sein. Auf Anfrage hieß es von Utimaco, das Unternehmen habe stets alle Gesetze und Vorschriften eingehalten. Außerdem hätte man niemals direkte Geschäfte mit einem der Mobilfunknetzbetreiber in Myanmar getätigt.

https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000286721/wie-china-seine-great-firewall-ins-ausland-exportiert

#Geedge #GreatFirewall #China #Pakistan #Kasachstan #Äthiopien #Myanmar #Burma #Massenüberwachung #Utimaco #Sandvine #Applogic #VPN #Tor #NetBlocks #InternetSperren #Medienkompetenz

Wer noch nicht weiß, was ein überspezifisches Dementi ist, findet hier ein schönes Beispiel:

2015 enthüllte etwa die NGO Privacy International, dass Pakistan Überwachungstechnologien deutscher Unternehmen nutzte. Bereits damals war die massive Überwachungswut des Landes bekannt. Eines der deutschen Unternehmen, Utimaco, soll Medienberichten zufolge auch in Myanmar aktiv gewesen sein. Auf Anfrage hieß es von Utimaco, das Unternehmen habe stets alle Gesetze und Vorschriften eingehalten. Außerdem hätte man niemals direkte Geschäfte mit einem der Mobilfunknetzbetreiber in Myanmar getätigt.

https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000286721/wie-china-seine-great-firewall-ins-ausland-exportiert

#Geedge #GreatFirewall #China #Pakistan #Kasachstan #Äthiopien #Myanmar #Burma #Massenüberwachung #Utimaco #Sandvine #Applogic #VPN #Tor #NetBlocks #InternetSperren #Medienkompetenz

Wer noch nicht weiß, was ein überspezifisches Dementi ist, findet hier ein schönes Beispiel:

2015 enthüllte etwa die NGO Privacy International, dass Pakistan Überwachungstechnologien deutscher Unternehmen nutzte. Bereits damals war die massive Überwachungswut des Landes bekannt. Eines der deutschen Unternehmen, Utimaco, soll Medienberichten zufolge auch in Myanmar aktiv gewesen sein. Auf Anfrage hieß es von Utimaco, das Unternehmen habe stets alle Gesetze und Vorschriften eingehalten. Außerdem hätte man niemals direkte Geschäfte mit einem der Mobilfunknetzbetreiber in Myanmar getätigt.

https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000286721/wie-china-seine-great-firewall-ins-ausland-exportiert

#Geedge #GreatFirewall #China #Pakistan #Kasachstan #Äthiopien #Myanmar #Burma #Massenüberwachung #Utimaco #Sandvine #Applogic #VPN #Tor #NetBlocks #InternetSperren #Medienkompetenz

Wer noch nicht weiß, was ein überspezifisches Dementi ist, findet hier ein schönes Beispiel:

2015 enthüllte etwa die NGO Privacy International, dass Pakistan Überwachungstechnologien deutscher Unternehmen nutzte. Bereits damals war die massive Überwachungswut des Landes bekannt. Eines der deutschen Unternehmen, Utimaco, soll Medienberichten zufolge auch in Myanmar aktiv gewesen sein. Auf Anfrage hieß es von Utimaco, das Unternehmen habe stets alle Gesetze und Vorschriften eingehalten. Außerdem hätte man niemals direkte Geschäfte mit einem der Mobilfunknetzbetreiber in Myanmar getätigt.

https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000286721/wie-china-seine-great-firewall-ins-ausland-exportiert

#Geedge #GreatFirewall #China #Pakistan #Kasachstan #Äthiopien #Myanmar #Burma #Massenüberwachung #Utimaco #Sandvine #Applogic #VPN #Tor #NetBlocks #InternetSperren #Medienkompetenz

Größtes Leak der chinesischen Zensur: 500 GB Quellcode und Dokumente öffentlich
Ein massives Leak legt bislang geheime Details zur Infrastruktur der chinesischen Internetzensur offen. Mehr als 500 GB interner Dokumente und Quellcode der „Great Firewall“ st
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/groesstes-leak-der-chinesischen-zensur-500-gb-quellcode-und-dokumente-oeffentlich/
#KI #News #China #DPI #GeedgeNetworks #GreatFirewall #ITSicherheit #Leak #Myanmar #Pakistan #berwachung #Zensur

Geedge & MESA Leak: Analyzing the Great Firewall’s Largest Document Leak

This has been kicking around for a few days now; still waiting for anything earth-shattering to come out of it, but worth watching:

https://gfw.report/blog/geedge_and_mesa_leak/en/

#china #cybersecurity #greatFirewall #leak

ICYMI 🚨 A 600GB leak allegedly exposing China’s Great Firewall operation has surfaced online. The leak is being linked to #EnlaceHacktivista, the group behind the 2023 Cellebrite breach.

More: https://hackread.com/great-firewall-of-china-data-published-largest-leak/

#CyberSecurity #Breach #China #GreatFirewall

Authoritarianism as a Service. Learn what's inside the report "The Internet Coup - A Technical Analysis on How a Chinese Company is Exporting The Great Firewall to Autocratic Regimes" with this AI-generated summary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUZqajeutCk

#GreatFirewall #InternetFreedom #Censorship

🚨🎉 Breaking News: Some poor souls at the Great Firewall decided to share their top-secret diary with the world, and apparently, it's a whopping 500 GB of riveting #bureaucracy and scintillating source code. 🤓💤 But don't worry, the experts are all over it—because nothing says "exciting weekend" quite like reading the meticulously leaked lunch orders of the GFW team. 🍜📄
https://gfw.report/blog/geedge_and_mesa_leak/en/ #BreakingNews #GreatFirewall #DataLeak #SourceCode #GFWdiary #HackerNews #ngated

So ist das halt mit Mauern: Irgendwann bröckeln sie dann doch. Auch ChinaMauern wie die Great Firwall.
Obacht: Auch wenn der Download möglich ist: Es könnte auch Unerwünschtes dabei sein...

Geedge & MESA Leak: Analyzing the Great Firewall’s Largest Document Leak

https://gfw.report/blog/geedge_and_mesa_leak/en/
#china #greatfirewall

What #Authoritarians May Learn About #Censorship From #Nepal’s #Protests

by Charlie Campbell
Updated: Sep 10, 2025 10:07 AM ET

Excerpt: "An eerie calm returned to Nepal on Wednesday after an army-enforced curfew paused two days of anti-government protests that had convulsed the capital Kathmandu and other cities, with predominantly young demonstrators burning tires, ransacking ministries, and invading politicians’ homes so that the occupants had to be airlifted to safety.

"At least 22 people lost their lives and hundreds more were injured by security forces in the carnage, which was ostensibly sparked by state attempts to block access to social media but in truth reflect an explosion of long bottled-up rage against political corruption and widespread inequality in the Himalayan nation of 30 million.

"The banning of 26 social-media platforms including Facebook, YouTube, and X was officially due to the companies’ failure to register and submit to government oversight, though protesters attributed the move as an attempt to block the crescendo of online complaints from young people furious at the #LuxuriousLifestyles enjoyed by children of the #PoliticalElite, so-called '#NepoKids.'

"The disparity between what ordinary Nepalis experience and what they saw flaunted online prompted calls last week for #MassProtests — calls which only mushroomed following the hamfisted social-media ban. Even after that prohibition was lifted on Tuesday, and the resignations of Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli and Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak, the unrest escalated.

" 'The government in Nepal was trying to use those new social-media regulations to prevent the very thing that happened,;' says Michael Kugelman, a D.C.-based South Asia analyst. 'So it completely backfired.'

"The power of social media to foment popular protest is no stranger to Asia, where the internet has been a key driver of popular uprisings that toppled governments in Sri Lanka in 2022 and Bangladesh in 2024, and continue to roil Indonesia today. But it’s a phenomenon that first came to light in the 2010 Arab Spring, when a series of anti-government protests swept the Middle East and North Africa that were predominately organized online.

"Most notably, and in a clear augury of Nepal today, efforts during the #ArabSpring to block social-media access simply cut a head of the hydra: highlighting the state’s blatant disregard for freedom of speech and assembly, vindicating the protesters’ complaints, and widening sympathy for their demands.

"Little wonder authoritarian states were spurred by the Arab Spring into enacting draconian internet controls. Across Nepal’s northern frontier, #China’s Great Firewall became the poster child for tightly regulated online space. Not only does the #GreatFirewall block undesirable external information but also weeds out and proscribes politically sensitive domestic content."

Read more:
https://time.com/7315858/nepal-protests-social-media-ban-authoritarian-censorship-internet-freedom-analysis/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

#Censorship #IncomeDisparity #YeetTheRich

What #Authoritarians May Learn About #Censorship From #Nepal’s #Protests

by Charlie Campbell
Updated: Sep 10, 2025 10:07 AM ET

Excerpt: "An eerie calm returned to Nepal on Wednesday after an army-enforced curfew paused two days of anti-government protests that had convulsed the capital Kathmandu and other cities, with predominantly young demonstrators burning tires, ransacking ministries, and invading politicians’ homes so that the occupants had to be airlifted to safety.

"At least 22 people lost their lives and hundreds more were injured by security forces in the carnage, which was ostensibly sparked by state attempts to block access to social media but in truth reflect an explosion of long bottled-up rage against political corruption and widespread inequality in the Himalayan nation of 30 million.

"The banning of 26 social-media platforms including Facebook, YouTube, and X was officially due to the companies’ failure to register and submit to government oversight, though protesters attributed the move as an attempt to block the crescendo of online complaints from young people furious at the #LuxuriousLifestyles enjoyed by children of the #PoliticalElite, so-called '#NepoKids.'

"The disparity between what ordinary Nepalis experience and what they saw flaunted online prompted calls last week for #MassProtests — calls which only mushroomed following the hamfisted social-media ban. Even after that prohibition was lifted on Tuesday, and the resignations of Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli and Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak, the unrest escalated.

" 'The government in Nepal was trying to use those new social-media regulations to prevent the very thing that happened,;' says Michael Kugelman, a D.C.-based South Asia analyst. 'So it completely backfired.'

"The power of social media to foment popular protest is no stranger to Asia, where the internet has been a key driver of popular uprisings that toppled governments in Sri Lanka in 2022 and Bangladesh in 2024, and continue to roil Indonesia today. But it’s a phenomenon that first came to light in the 2010 Arab Spring, when a series of anti-government protests swept the Middle East and North Africa that were predominately organized online.

"Most notably, and in a clear augury of Nepal today, efforts during the #ArabSpring to block social-media access simply cut a head of the hydra: highlighting the state’s blatant disregard for freedom of speech and assembly, vindicating the protesters’ complaints, and widening sympathy for their demands.

"Little wonder authoritarian states were spurred by the Arab Spring into enacting draconian internet controls. Across Nepal’s northern frontier, #China’s Great Firewall became the poster child for tightly regulated online space. Not only does the #GreatFirewall block undesirable external information but also weeds out and proscribes politically sensitive domestic content."

Read more:
https://time.com/7315858/nepal-protests-social-media-ban-authoritarian-censorship-internet-freedom-analysis/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

#Censorship #IncomeDisparity #YeetTheRich

What #Authoritarians May Learn About #Censorship From #Nepal’s #Protests

by Charlie Campbell
Updated: Sep 10, 2025 10:07 AM ET

Excerpt: "An eerie calm returned to Nepal on Wednesday after an army-enforced curfew paused two days of anti-government protests that had convulsed the capital Kathmandu and other cities, with predominantly young demonstrators burning tires, ransacking ministries, and invading politicians’ homes so that the occupants had to be airlifted to safety.

"At least 22 people lost their lives and hundreds more were injured by security forces in the carnage, which was ostensibly sparked by state attempts to block access to social media but in truth reflect an explosion of long bottled-up rage against political corruption and widespread inequality in the Himalayan nation of 30 million.

"The banning of 26 social-media platforms including Facebook, YouTube, and X was officially due to the companies’ failure to register and submit to government oversight, though protesters attributed the move as an attempt to block the crescendo of online complaints from young people furious at the #LuxuriousLifestyles enjoyed by children of the #PoliticalElite, so-called '#NepoKids.'

"The disparity between what ordinary Nepalis experience and what they saw flaunted online prompted calls last week for #MassProtests — calls which only mushroomed following the hamfisted social-media ban. Even after that prohibition was lifted on Tuesday, and the resignations of Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli and Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak, the unrest escalated.

" 'The government in Nepal was trying to use those new social-media regulations to prevent the very thing that happened,;' says Michael Kugelman, a D.C.-based South Asia analyst. 'So it completely backfired.'

"The power of social media to foment popular protest is no stranger to Asia, where the internet has been a key driver of popular uprisings that toppled governments in Sri Lanka in 2022 and Bangladesh in 2024, and continue to roil Indonesia today. But it’s a phenomenon that first came to light in the 2010 Arab Spring, when a series of anti-government protests swept the Middle East and North Africa that were predominately organized online.

"Most notably, and in a clear augury of Nepal today, efforts during the #ArabSpring to block social-media access simply cut a head of the hydra: highlighting the state’s blatant disregard for freedom of speech and assembly, vindicating the protesters’ complaints, and widening sympathy for their demands.

"Little wonder authoritarian states were spurred by the Arab Spring into enacting draconian internet controls. Across Nepal’s northern frontier, #China’s Great Firewall became the poster child for tightly regulated online space. Not only does the #GreatFirewall block undesirable external information but also weeds out and proscribes politically sensitive domestic content."

Read more:
https://time.com/7315858/nepal-protests-social-media-ban-authoritarian-censorship-internet-freedom-analysis/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

#Censorship #IncomeDisparity #YeetTheRich

What #Authoritarians May Learn About #Censorship From #Nepal’s #Protests

by Charlie Campbell
Updated: Sep 10, 2025 10:07 AM ET

Excerpt: "An eerie calm returned to Nepal on Wednesday after an army-enforced curfew paused two days of anti-government protests that had convulsed the capital Kathmandu and other cities, with predominantly young demonstrators burning tires, ransacking ministries, and invading politicians’ homes so that the occupants had to be airlifted to safety.

"At least 22 people lost their lives and hundreds more were injured by security forces in the carnage, which was ostensibly sparked by state attempts to block access to social media but in truth reflect an explosion of long bottled-up rage against political corruption and widespread inequality in the Himalayan nation of 30 million.

"The banning of 26 social-media platforms including Facebook, YouTube, and X was officially due to the companies’ failure to register and submit to government oversight, though protesters attributed the move as an attempt to block the crescendo of online complaints from young people furious at the #LuxuriousLifestyles enjoyed by children of the #PoliticalElite, so-called '#NepoKids.'

"The disparity between what ordinary Nepalis experience and what they saw flaunted online prompted calls last week for #MassProtests — calls which only mushroomed following the hamfisted social-media ban. Even after that prohibition was lifted on Tuesday, and the resignations of Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli and Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak, the unrest escalated.

" 'The government in Nepal was trying to use those new social-media regulations to prevent the very thing that happened,;' says Michael Kugelman, a D.C.-based South Asia analyst. 'So it completely backfired.'

"The power of social media to foment popular protest is no stranger to Asia, where the internet has been a key driver of popular uprisings that toppled governments in Sri Lanka in 2022 and Bangladesh in 2024, and continue to roil Indonesia today. But it’s a phenomenon that first came to light in the 2010 Arab Spring, when a series of anti-government protests swept the Middle East and North Africa that were predominately organized online.

"Most notably, and in a clear augury of Nepal today, efforts during the #ArabSpring to block social-media access simply cut a head of the hydra: highlighting the state’s blatant disregard for freedom of speech and assembly, vindicating the protesters’ complaints, and widening sympathy for their demands.

"Little wonder authoritarian states were spurred by the Arab Spring into enacting draconian internet controls. Across Nepal’s northern frontier, #China’s Great Firewall became the poster child for tightly regulated online space. Not only does the #GreatFirewall block undesirable external information but also weeds out and proscribes politically sensitive domestic content."

Read more:
https://time.com/7315858/nepal-protests-social-media-ban-authoritarian-censorship-internet-freedom-analysis/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

#Censorship #IncomeDisparity #YeetTheRich

What #Authoritarians May Learn About #Censorship From #Nepal’s #Protests

by Charlie Campbell
Updated: Sep 10, 2025 10:07 AM ET

Excerpt: "An eerie calm returned to Nepal on Wednesday after an army-enforced curfew paused two days of anti-government protests that had convulsed the capital Kathmandu and other cities, with predominantly young demonstrators burning tires, ransacking ministries, and invading politicians’ homes so that the occupants had to be airlifted to safety.

"At least 22 people lost their lives and hundreds more were injured by security forces in the carnage, which was ostensibly sparked by state attempts to block access to social media but in truth reflect an explosion of long bottled-up rage against political corruption and widespread inequality in the Himalayan nation of 30 million.

"The banning of 26 social-media platforms including Facebook, YouTube, and X was officially due to the companies’ failure to register and submit to government oversight, though protesters attributed the move as an attempt to block the crescendo of online complaints from young people furious at the #LuxuriousLifestyles enjoyed by children of the #PoliticalElite, so-called '#NepoKids.'

"The disparity between what ordinary Nepalis experience and what they saw flaunted online prompted calls last week for #MassProtests — calls which only mushroomed following the hamfisted social-media ban. Even after that prohibition was lifted on Tuesday, and the resignations of Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli and Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak, the unrest escalated.

" 'The government in Nepal was trying to use those new social-media regulations to prevent the very thing that happened,;' says Michael Kugelman, a D.C.-based South Asia analyst. 'So it completely backfired.'

"The power of social media to foment popular protest is no stranger to Asia, where the internet has been a key driver of popular uprisings that toppled governments in Sri Lanka in 2022 and Bangladesh in 2024, and continue to roil Indonesia today. But it’s a phenomenon that first came to light in the 2010 Arab Spring, when a series of anti-government protests swept the Middle East and North Africa that were predominately organized online.

"Most notably, and in a clear augury of Nepal today, efforts during the #ArabSpring to block social-media access simply cut a head of the hydra: highlighting the state’s blatant disregard for freedom of speech and assembly, vindicating the protesters’ complaints, and widening sympathy for their demands.

"Little wonder authoritarian states were spurred by the Arab Spring into enacting draconian internet controls. Across Nepal’s northern frontier, #China’s Great Firewall became the poster child for tightly regulated online space. Not only does the #GreatFirewall block undesirable external information but also weeds out and proscribes politically sensitive domestic content."

Read more:
https://time.com/7315858/nepal-protests-social-media-ban-authoritarian-censorship-internet-freedom-analysis/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

#Censorship #IncomeDisparity #YeetTheRich

Massive #Leak Shows How a #Chinese Company Is Exporting the #GreatFirewall to the World

#GeedgeNetworks , a company with ties to the founder of China’s mass #censorship #infrastructure, is selling its censorship and #surveillance systems to at least four other countries in #Asia and #Africa.
#privacy #China

https://www.wired.com/story/geedge-networks-mass-censorship-leak/

It's been a few days that the #GFW was observed to block off all TCP/443 connections for around 2 hours on August 20.

What do you folks speculate might have been the reason behind it?

#China #Censorship #GreatFirewall

It's been a few days that the #GFW was observed to block off all TCP/443 connections for around 2 hours on August 20.

What do you folks speculate might have been the reason behind it?

#China #Censorship #GreatFirewall

It's been a few days that the #GFW was observed to block off all TCP/443 connections for around 2 hours on August 20.

What do you folks speculate might have been the reason behind it?

#China #Censorship #GreatFirewall

It's been a few days that the #GFW was observed to block off all TCP/443 connections for around 2 hours on August 20.

What do you folks speculate might have been the reason behind it?

#China #Censorship #GreatFirewall

It's been a few days that the #GFW was observed to block off all TCP/443 connections for around 2 hours on August 20.

What do you folks speculate might have been the reason behind it?

#China #Censorship #GreatFirewall

China war am 20. August für über eine Stunde durch die Große Firewall vom globalen Internet abgeschnitten: Der HTTPS-Datenverkehr (Port 443) wurde blockiert, Ursache unklar. Massive Störungen zwischen China und Welt inklusive gefälschter Reset-Pakete. Test, Panne oder neuer Firewall-Fehler? Mehr dazu: https://www.golem.de/news/https-traffic-blockiert-grosse-firewall-schneidet-china-vom-weltweiten-internet-ab-2508-199427.html 🌐🚫🔥 #China #GreatFirewall #InternetCensorship
#newz

The Great Firewall Report publishes some research on how #China cut-off all TCP/443 (inbound and outbound) with TCP RST+ACK packet injections through the #GreatFirewall .

Intimidating, how a nation can isolate their entire population from the common #Internet .

#Censorship #GFW