China’s ‘Great Firewall’ of Internet censorship gets higher

May 28, 2016Initiative

(May 30th, 2016) Despite hopes that China’s ever-tougher censoring of the Internet to keep away challenges to the dictatorship of the Communist Party would be cracked, in fact that censorship seems to be increasingly effective.

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As this first in a series of articles in The Washington Post about the ‘’Great Firewall of China’’ notes:

“Far from knocking down the world’s largest system of censorship, China in fact is moving ever more confidently in the opposite direction, strengthening the wall’s legal foundations, closing breaches and reinforcing its control of the Web behind the wall.’’