中国政府は国内のインターネット通信を監視するため、グレートファイアウォール(金盾)という国家規模の検閲システムを運用しています。そんなグレー
Rest of World received exclusive access to a platform that tracks patterns and timing of Chinese online censorship.
GFWeb provides precise tracking of when Chinese authorities block domains, including sites like ChatGPT, Hugging Face, and Perplexity.
Chinese censors appear focused on blocking AI tools for content generation, such as video and image editing applications.
Censorship spikes might be linked to significant events, such as China’s introduction of AI regulations.
Blanket type censorship results in massive collateral damage!
The dictatorship in Turkmenistan does not get a lot of media and scholarly attention, although it is more than worthy of it. In the 2023 Freedom in the World Index, the country ranked in the bottom three, behind only war-torn Syria and ahead of North Korea. The issue of Internet censorship is particularly acute in Turkmenistan. In 2016, the media freedom organization Reporters without Borders listed the country as one of the enemies of the Internet due to its heavy censorship and information control policies.