censorship.md

# Censorship 审查

- <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_China>
- <http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%AD%E5%8D%8E%E4%BA%BA%E6%B0%91%E5%85%B1%E5%92%8C%E5%9B%BD%E8%A8%80%E8%AE%BA%E5%AE%A1%E6%9F%A5>

## Climb the Great Firewall 翻墙

Tool lists:

- <http://wsgzao.github.io/post/fq/>
- <https://github.com/danoctavian/awesome-anti-censorship>

Tools:

-   <http://fqrouter.tumblr.com/> <https://github.com/fqrouter/fqrouter> <https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fqrouter>
-   <https://github.com/Leask/BRICKS>
-   <https://github.com/justjavac/ReplaceGoogleCDN> <https://github.com/justjavac/Google-IPs>
-   distributed VoIP / chat / IM: <https://ring.cx/>,  <https://tox.chat/>, <https://github.com/RetroShare/RetroShare> Yes, you could give your data to NSA and just use Skype (while that is not too slow or Microsoft does spy deals with the CCP).
-   website blacklists. So that you enable Shadowsocks only for needed sites, to reduce costs and prevent detection.
    -   <https://github.com/shadowsocks/ChinaDNS>
        - <https://github.com/fxckgfw/shadowsocks-wiki>
    -   <https://github.com/h2y/Shadowrocket-ADBlock-Rules>

Monitoring and data:

-   <http://greatfire.org/>
    - <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GreatFire>
    - <https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%87%AA%E7%94%B1%E5%BE%AE%E5%8D%9A>
    - <https://freeweibo.com/>
    - <https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2013/nov/google-can-bring-end-censorship-10-days-heres-how> made some noise at the time
    - <https://twitter.com/GreatFireChina>
-   other websites: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/267715/is-stack-overflow-accessible-in-china/288497#288497
-   Harvard papers
    - <http://gking.harvard.edu/50c#>
    - <http://gking.harvard.edu/publications/how-Censorship-China-Allows-Government-Criticism-Silences-Collective-Expression>
    - <http://gking.harvard.edu/publications/randomized-experimental-study-censorship-china>
-   emulation
    - <https://github.com/phoeagon/gfw-sim>
-   <https://github.com/citizenlab/chat-censorship> data on Censorship
-   <https://github.com/gfwlist/gfwlist> do a `base64 -d gfwlist.txt` to view the list. Syntax described at: <https://github.com/gfwlist/gfwlist/wiki/Syntax>

Information:

## Websites 网站

- <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Websites_blocked_in_mainland_China> <http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%AD%E5%8D%8E%E4%BA%BA%E6%B0%91%E5%85%B1%E5%92%8C%E5%9B%BD%E8%A2%AB%E5%B0%81%E9%94%81%E7%BD%91%E7%AB%99%E5%88%97%E8%A1%A8>
- <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_China> <https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E4%BA%92%E8%81%94%E7%BD%91> Across the Great Wall, we can reach every corner in the world. 越过长城，走向世界.

Anyone can create content 任何人都可以些：

-   <http://google.com> <http://www.baidu.com/> <https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/traffic/?hl=zh-CN#expand=CN>
    - Google Play <http://www.androidcentral.com/google-play-store-reportedly-planned-early-2016-launch-china>
-   <http://www.facebook.com> <http://www.renren.com>
-   <https://twitter.com/> <http://weibo.com/> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sina_Weibo>. Oh, but an official press does have an 1M subscriber account on Twitter: <https://twitter.com/PDChina> They have a rumour refutation platform! 微博辟谣 https://www.weibo.com/weibopiyao lol
-   <https://www.youtube.com/> <http://www.youku.com/>
-   <https://www.blogger.com/>
-   <https://wordpress.com/>
-   <https://www.dropbox.com/> <http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-Chinese-Dropbox-alternatives>  <http://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/2s0z4d/unblocked_cloud_storage_alternative_for_china/>
-   <https://soundcloud.com/>
-   <http://www.reddit.com/>
    - <https://www.reddit.com/r/China/> Great source of anti-China ammo :-)
-   <http://pastebin.com>
-   <https://medium.com/> in 2016-04 <https://www.techinasia.com/medium-blocked-china-bcuz-of-course>
-   Image sharing
    - Instagram
    - Tumblr
    - Snapchat
    - Picasa
    - Pinterest

Curated content:

- <https://archive.org/>
- <https://wikileaks.org/>
- <https://www.amnesty.org/en/>

Anti-censorship tools: 反审查工具:

- <https://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source.html>

Censorship monitoring tools 审查监控工具: <http://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/288497/895245>

Surprisingly unblocked 令人惊讶的畅通：

- <http://stackoverflow.com> <http://segmentfault.com> <http://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-Chinese-version-of-Stackoverflow-com>
- <http://github.com> Temporarily blocked twice: <http://chloerei.com/2014/02/24/we-saved-github-twice/>
- <https://www.tumblr.com>
- <http://www.quora.com/> <http://www.quora.com/Is-there-any-clone-of-Quora-in-China>, <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhihu>, <http://www.zhihu.com/>

List of alternatives 替代品名单: <http://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/1amoqj/chinese_equivalents_to_these_major_american/>

- <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Dam_Youth_Escort> <https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%B6%A0%E5%A3%A9%C2%B7%E8%8A%B1%E5%AD%A3%E8%AD%B7%E8%88%AA>

Curated list of censored websites:

- <http://fanqianghou.com/> Website title translate: "After you climb the wall, what to see?".
- <http://blockedonweibo.tumblr.com>

### Pornography

Illegal since 1949: <http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2009/06/they_know_it_when_they_see_it.html> and continues to be semi-enforced.

TODO rationale today? Some people said it is to not divert people's attention from work and the service of the country.

## Tools

Skype TODO status?:

- <https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2013/nov/tom-skype-dead-long-live-microsoft-surveillance>
- <https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/33ivl5/is_skype_banned_in_china/>

## Images 图片

- <https://projects.propublica.org/weibo/>

## Books 书籍

- <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_censorship_in_China> <https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%AD%E5%8D%8E%E4%BA%BA%E6%B0%91%E5%85%B1%E5%92%8C%E5%9B%BD%E5%87%BA%E7%89%88%E7%89%A9%E5%AE%A1%E6%9F%A5%E5%88%B6%E5%BA%A6>
- <http://www.bannedbook.org/>
- <http://book.edoors.com/category/834>

## Films 电影

[Avatar 阿凡达 2009](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar_%282009_film%29)

## Shows 电视节目

- Big Bang Theory <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Bang_Theory> <http://mic.com/articles/89051/china-has-banned-the-big-bang-theory-for-the-very-reason-the-u-s-loves-it>

## Music 音乐

- Joan Baez - China <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThmknUWoab4>
- A song was heard in China (Author?) <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viKGP39DWzM>

## Effects

- XcodeGhost <http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/09/apple-scrambles-after-40-malicious-xcodeghost-apps-haunt-app-store/>

## Goals

Likely, censorship has two goals 可能的是，审查有两个目标：

- hide bad things about the government 隐藏有关政府坏事
- economic protectionism 贸易保护主义

Sources:

- <http://web.archive.org/web/20151013163644/http://gking.harvard.edu/files/censored.pdf>

## Reverse engineering

Weibo:

- <https://citizenlab.org/2017/04/we-cant-chat-709-crackdown-discussions-blocked-on-weibo-and-wechat/>