The “Great Firewall of China” is blocking 311,000 domains, including commercial, pornographic, and news media sites.
A team of academics from US and Canadian universities is investigating the China's Great Firewall with in-house developed system called “GFWatch”, to determine China's internet censorship capabilities.
The research team said that the China's Great Firewall blocks newly registered domains by default, until the authorities could filter and categorize their content. Using “GFWatch”, researchers tested 534 million distinct domains from April to December 2020, accessing around 411 million domains on a daily basis, and sorted out about 311,000 domains currently blocked by the China's Great Firewall, in which 40% of them are newly registered domains. The most frequently blocked ones include commercial, pornographic or news media.
Moreover, as the pandemic grew more intense last year some of the COVID-19 related websites are also banned, such as covid-19truth.info. In addition, some domains are accidentally blocked for name similarity with intentionally block sites. For instant, bookreddit.com is also blocked when the Chinese authorities blocks reddit.com, which make Chinese students hard to use those online resources for learning.
Source: Unwire.HK #Jul16
https://unwire.hk/2021/07/16/gfwblockage/fun-tech
#China #Firewall #Internet #Censorship #Pornographic #GFWatch #COVID19 #Reddit #LearningResources
A team of academics from US and Canadian universities is investigating the China's Great Firewall with in-house developed system called “GFWatch”, to determine China's internet censorship capabilities.
The research team said that the China's Great Firewall blocks newly registered domains by default, until the authorities could filter and categorize their content. Using “GFWatch”, researchers tested 534 million distinct domains from April to December 2020, accessing around 411 million domains on a daily basis, and sorted out about 311,000 domains currently blocked by the China's Great Firewall, in which 40% of them are newly registered domains. The most frequently blocked ones include commercial, pornographic or news media.
Moreover, as the pandemic grew more intense last year some of the COVID-19 related websites are also banned, such as covid-19truth.info. In addition, some domains are accidentally blocked for name similarity with intentionally block sites. For instant, bookreddit.com is also blocked when the Chinese authorities blocks reddit.com, which make Chinese students hard to use those online resources for learning.
Source: Unwire.HK #Jul16
https://unwire.hk/2021/07/16/gfwblockage/fun-tech
#China #Firewall #Internet #Censorship #Pornographic #GFWatch #COVID19 #Reddit #LearningResources
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「中國防火長城」封鎖 31 萬個網站 商業、色情、新聞媒體類佔大多數
最近有外國大學組成研究團隊，對「中國防火長城」進行研究。透過採用自身開發的「GFWatch」的系統，審視現時中國網絡封鎖的情況。 研究小組指出，現時「中國防火長城」的機制會先封鎖新註冊的網站，然後再由當局為這些網站進行過濾和分類。據研究數據顯示，「GFWatch」在 2020 年 4 月到 12