OTF | Greatfire - Expanding Collateral Freedom

Greatfire monitors and challenges internet censorship in China.

GreatFire is an anonymous organization based in China. The organization launched its first project in 2011 in an effort to help bring transparency to online censorship in China. Now, GreatFire focuses on helping Chinese to freely access information.

GreatFire.org is implementing the concept of “collateral freedom” on the Internet and making their technology only available to any content provider who needs to unblock their content in any country that practices online censorship. GreatFire continues to test and experiment in China as censorship is pervasive and the censorship apparatus is well developed. They have launched an iOS app that the censors have been unable to block and launched mirror websites of FreeWeibo, China Digital Times, and Reuters which censors struggle to block.

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Funding to date

2014 $114,000 12 months

Total Funding: $114,000

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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

Greatfire monitors and challenges internet censorship in China.

Get the word out

Funding to date

Total Funding: $114,000

We wrote about it

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