April 2008
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
4h 41m
English
The Great Firewall of China is built with American bricks.
—Professor Kim Wu, Columbia Law School
In addition to spreading its propaganda through official Chinese news sources and censoring all print, radio, and TV media, China has built—with the extensive help of American corporations—its vaunted “Great Firewall of China.”
Like a virtual fine-toothed comb, China’s Great Firewall censors prowl 24/7 to block, filter, monitor, and control all of China’s Internet traffic. In fact, this spying capability exists largely because of the sophisticated Internet network equipment that America’s Cisco Systems has sold to China—while generating billions of dollars in revenue for Cisco shareholders.
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