Great Firewall

Former defense contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden has praised a group of Chinese programmers for creating an ecosystem of apps and protocols to combat internet censorship. What Happened: On Wednesday, Snowden took to X (formerly Twitter ) and expressed admiration for the Chinese...

Champions of China’s free internet campaign took another hit Monday with a pullback of functionalities on Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN)’s cloud computing services. Beijing Sinnet Technology, the Chinese company locally operating Amazon Web Services, ordered domestic site hosts to stop...

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) notified a number of software developers Saturday that their virtual private network iOS apps would no longer be accessible in censorship-heavy China. Consumers use the VPNs to circumvent the government’s “Great Firewall” filtering internet content and...