{"id":18911,"date":"2025-05-24T08:37:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T06:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/24\/alarming-rise-in-regional-internet-censorship-in-china-study-finds\/"},"modified":"2025-05-24T08:37:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T06:37:18","slug":"alarming-rise-in-regional-internet-censorship-in-china-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/24\/alarming-rise-in-regional-internet-censorship-in-china-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Alarming\u2019 rise in regional internet censorship in China, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tens of millions of internet users in China\u2019s Henan denied access to five times more websites than usual<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s authorities appear to have implemented an enhanced version of the country\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/jun\/29\/the-great-firewall-of-china-xi-jinpings-internet-shutdown\">internet censorship regime<\/a> in the central province of Henan, subjecting tens of millions of residents to even stricter controls on access to information than people in the rest of the country.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/gfw.report\/publications\/sp25\/en\/#7\">research paper<\/a> published this month by Great Firewall Report, an internet censorship monitoring platform, found that internet users in Henan, one of China\u2019s most populous provinces, were, on average, denied access to five times more websites than a typical Chinese internet user between November 2023 and March 2025.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/24\/alarming-rise-in-regional-internet-censorship-in-china-study-finds\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/007185a39351cf5afc94baca619846d0b03e3338\/467_0_4667_3737\/master\/4667.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=7f475b03cf68e0d69ec6fd204bf2c918\" title=\"\u2018Alarming\u2019 rise in regional internet censorship in China, study finds\" \/>Tens of millions of internet users in China\u2019s Henan denied access to five times more websites than usual<br \/>\nChina\u2019s authorities appear to have implemented an enhanced version of the country\u2019s internet censorship regime in the central province of Henan, subjecting tens of millions of residents to even stricter controls on access to information than people in the rest of the country.<br \/>\nA research paper published this month by Great Firewall Report, an internet censorship monitoring platform, found that internet users in Henan, one of China\u2019s most populous provinces, were, on average, denied access to five times more websites than a typical Chinese internet user between November 2023 and March 2025. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tens of millions of internet users in China\u2019s Henan denied access to five times more websites than usual China\u2019s authorities appear to have implemented an enhanced version of the country\u2019s internet censorship regime in the central province of Henan, subjecting tens of millions of residents to even stricter controls on access to information than people &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/24\/alarming-rise-in-regional-internet-censorship-in-china-study-finds\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Alarming\u2019 rise in regional internet censorship in China, study finds<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18911"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}