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Revision as of 21:13, 11 September 2015
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| Formation | 2011[1] |
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| Type | Non-profit organization[2] |
| Purpose | Advocacy against Internet censorship in China |
| Website | GreatFire.org |
GreatFire (GreatFire.org) is a non-profit organization that monitors the status of websites censored by the Great Firewall of China[3] and helps Chinese Internet users circumvent the censorship and blockage of websites in China.[4][5] The website also hosts a testing system that allows visitors to test in real time the accessibility of a website from various locations within China. The organization's stated mission is to "bring transparency to the Great Firewall of China."[6]
GreatFire has worked with BBC to make the Chinese-language BBC website available to users in China, despite it being blocked by the Great Firewall, by using a method known as collateral freedom[7] that mirrors content on widely-used content delivery networks, such as Amazon CloudFront and CloudFlare, so that it would be too economically costly for censors to block.[8][9][10] The organization has since set up similar mirror sites for other blocked websites, such as Google and the New York Times, with a directory of links hosted on GitHub, which is currently accessible in China.[11][12]
GreatFire has since been targeted with distributed denial-of-service attacks that attempt to take down the website by overloading its servers with traffic.[13] Recently, it has been targeted by a Chinese attack tool named Great Cannon that redirected massive amounts of Internet traffic to servers used by GreatFire.[14]
References
- ^ "When did GreatFire.org launch?". GreatFire.org. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
- ^ "Do you make money?". GreatFire.org. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
- ^ Biggs, John (March 19, 2015). "Anti-Censorship Service Greatfire Is Under Attack". TechCrunch. AOL Inc. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
- ^ Unknown (March 20, 2015). "Chinese anti-censorship group Greatfire.org suffers massive hack". The Guardian. Guardian News and Media Limited. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
- ^ Boehler, Patrick (March 20, 2015). "Hackers Attack GreatFire.org, a Workaround for Websites Censored in China". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
- ^ "Online Censorship In China - GreatFire". GreatFire.org. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
- ^ Robinson, David; Yu, Harlan; An, Anne. "Collateral Freedom - A Snapshot of Chinese Internet Users Circumventing Censorship" (PDF). Open Internet Tools Project. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
- ^ Meyer, David (November 24, 2014). "BBC uses "collateral freedom" system to bypass Chinese censorship". GigaOM. Gigaom, Inc. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
- ^ Wilson, Mark (November 25, 2014). "GreatFire.org and BBC punch uncensored news through the Great Firewall of China". BetaNews. BetaNews, Inc. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
- ^ Newman, Lily Hay (November 25, 2014). "The BBC Is Working With a Transparency Group to Bring Uncensored News Into China". Slate. The Slate Group LLC. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
- ^ "Collateral Freedom FAQ". GreatFire.org. January 7, 2014. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
- ^ "GitHub: greatfire/wiki". Retrieved April 10, 2015.
- ^ Russel, Jon (March 30, 2015). "These Activists Are Plotting To End Internet Censorship In China". TechCrunch. AOL Inc. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
- ^ Perlroth, Nicole (April 10, 2015). "China Is Said to Use Powerful New Weapon to Censor Internet". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved April 10, 2015.