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Exposing the world´s biggest and most sophisticated system of internet censorship

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´ Readers will come away startled at just how fragile the online infrastructure we all depend on is and how much influence China wields - both technically and politically´ - Jason Q. Ng, author of Blocked on Weibo
´An urgent and much needed reminder about how China´s quest for cyber sovereignty is undermining global Internet freedom´ - Kristie Lu Stout, CNN

´An important and incisive history of the Chinese internet that introduces us to the government officials, business leaders, and technology activists struggling over access to information within the Great Firewall´ - Adam M. Segal, author of The Hacked World Order


Once little more than a glorified porn filter, China´s ´Great Firewall´ has evolved into the most sophisticated system of online censorship in the world. As the Chinese internet grows and online businesses thrive, speech is controlled, dissent quashed, and attempts to organise outside the official Communist Party are quickly stamped out. But the effects of the Great Firewall are not confined to China itself.

Through years of investigation James Griffiths gained unprecedented access to the Great Firewall and the politicians, tech leaders, dissidents and hackers whose lives revolve around it. As distortion, post-truth and fake news become old news James Griffiths shows just how far the Great Firewall has spread. Now is the time for a radical new vision of online liberty.

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Introduction: Early Warnings
Part 1: Wall

1. Protests: Solidarity from Hong Kong to Tiananmen
2. Over the Wall: China´s First Email and the Rise of the Online Censor
3. Nailing the Jello: Chinese Democracy and the Great Firewall
4. Enemy at the Gates: How Fear of Falun Gong Boosted the Firewall
5. Searching for an Opening: Google, Yahoo, and Silicon Valley´s Moral Failing in China
Part 2: Shield

6. Along Came a Spider: Lu Wei Reigns in the Chinese Internet
7. Peak Traffic: Getting the Dalai Lama Online
8. Filtered: The Firewall Catches up with Da Cankao
9. Jumping the Wall: FreeGate, UltraSurf, and Falun Gong´s Fight Against the Censors
10. Called to Account: Silicon Valley´s Reckoning on Capitol Hill
Part 3: Sword

11. Uyghurs Online: Ilham Tohti and the birth of the Uyghur Internet
12. Shutdown: How to Take Twenty Million People Offline
13. Ghosts in the Machine: Chinese Hackers Expand the Firewall´s Reach
14. NoGuGe: The Ignominious End of Google China
15. The Social Network: Weibo and the Last Free Speech Platform
16. Gorillas in the Mist: Exposing China´s Hackers to the World
Part 4: War

17. Caught : The Death of the Uyghur Internet
18. Key Opinion Leader: How Chinese Trolls Go After Dissidents Overseas
19. Root and Stem: The Internet is More Vulnerable than You Think
20. The Censor at the UN: China´s Undermining of Global Internet Freedoms
21. Sovereignty: When Xi Jinping Came for the Internet
22. Friends in Moscow: The Great Firewall Goes West
23. Plane Crash: China Helps Russia Bring Telegram to Heel
24. One App to Rule Them All: How WeChat Opened Up New Frontiers of Surveillance
25. Buttocks: Uganda´s Internet Blackouts and Censorship Follow Beijing´s Lead
Epilogue: Silicon Valley Won´t Save You

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