Monitoring and challenging internet censorship in China
Current project status
Just an idea (Pre-alpha)
It exists! (Alpha/Beta)
It's basically done (Release)
People use it (Production)
Funding to date
2014
$114,000
12 months
Total Funding: $114,000
Addressed problems
- Restrictive Internet filtering by technical methods (IP blocking, DNS filtering, TCP RST, DPI, etc.)
- Localized or nationwide communications shut down or throttling (Blackouts)
- Policies, laws, or directives that increase surveillance, censorship, and punishment
- Government practices that hold intermediaries (social networks or ISPs) liable for user content
- Prohibitive cost to access the Internet
Objective(s)
- Deploying technology
- Software or hardware development
- Testing
- Technology development
Beneficiaries
- General public
- Activists
- Journalists
- Advocacy groups/NGOs
- Technologists
- Entrepreneurs
Region(s) archive
- Global
Technology attributes
- Platform as a service (PaaS)
- Server daemon
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
We wrote about it
- Growing and Expanding the OTF Research Agenda
- Alphabet (Formerly Known as Google) Is Already Blocked in China
- GreatFire Honored at Index Awards 2016
- April 2016 Monthly Report
- China’s Latest VPN Crackdown
- China tightens grip on the Internet, but it didn't block all the tools to get around censorship: Mashable
- Q. and A.: Adam Fisk on Evading Internet Censorship in China: New York Times
- China cracks down further on VPNs as censorship intensifies: The Register
- How Chinese Internet users are climbing a bigger, badder Great Firewall: Daily Dot
- China Blocks Economist and Time Websites, Apparently Over Xi Jinping Articles: New York Times
- Internet activists are finding ways around China’s Great Firewall: Washington Post