26.1.3.6.2. GreatFire (自由微博)
A group that produces tools and websites against censorship in China, central website: https://greatfire.org/
Backed by Radio Free Asia (RFA, 自由亚洲电台, USA government media) and therefore USA Government.
The GreatFire Analyzer is their most important tool, it checks if websites are blocked or not in China:
Alternatives from other providers:
It also keeps a calendar of previous checks so you can see when a website started getting blocked.
One of the highlighted collections is the Alexa Top 1000 domain block analysis: https://en.greatfire.org/search/alexa-top-1000-domains
Quite a few amazingly named porn ones, how could you live without them? Pornography ban (色情禁令)
And some interesting random stuff that is hard to understand why its blocked, some of them appear to be pure protectionism:
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https://sourceforge.net/ interesting! The ex-GitHub was blocked unlike GitHub as of 2020: https://www.quora.com/Is-SourceForge-still-relevant-to-open-source-projects/answer/Ciro-Santilli
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weirdly named Google mirrors
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https://www.jw.org/en/ Jehovah’s Witness
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https://www.yodobashi.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yodobashi_Camera a Japanese Electronics retailer
Other tools and projects:
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https://freeweibo.com a Weibo (新浪微博) archive to overcome deleted posts
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https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2013/nov/google-can-bring-end-censorship-10-days-heres-how made some noise at the time
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Their repo https://github.com/greatfire/wiki has been added to gov-takedowns/China (由中共在国审查的库仓的GitHub官方列表).
Who is behind them:
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https://techcrunch.com/2015/03/30/greatfire/ from 2015 says "Started in 2011 by three anonymous individuals", and "Charlie Smith" is the pseudonym of the CEO.
A group that produces tools and websites against censorship in China, central website: https://greatfire.org/
Backed by Radio Free Asia (RFA, 自由亚洲电台, USA government media) and therefore USA Government.
The GreatFire Analyzer is their most important tool, it checks if websites are blocked or not in China:
Alternatives from other providers:
It also keeps a calendar of previous checks so you can see when a website started getting blocked.
One of the highlighted collections is the Alexa Top 1000 domain block analysis: https://en.greatfire.org/search/alexa-top-1000-domains
Quite a few amazingly named porn ones, how could you live without them? Pornography ban (色情禁令)
And some interesting random stuff that is hard to understand why its blocked, some of them appear to be pure protectionism:
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https://sourceforge.net/ interesting! The ex-GitHub was blocked unlike GitHub as of 2020: https://www.quora.com/Is-SourceForge-still-relevant-to-open-source-projects/answer/Ciro-Santilli
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weirdly named Google mirrors
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https://www.jw.org/en/ Jehovah’s Witness
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https://www.yodobashi.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yodobashi_Camera a Japanese Electronics retailer
Other tools and projects:
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https://freeweibo.com a Weibo (新浪微博) archive to overcome deleted posts
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https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2013/nov/google-can-bring-end-censorship-10-days-heres-how made some noise at the time
Their repo https://github.com/greatfire/wiki has been added to gov-takedowns/China (由中共在国审查的库仓的GitHub官方列表).
Who is behind them:
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https://techcrunch.com/2015/03/30/greatfire/ from 2015 says "Started in 2011 by three anonymous individuals", and "Charlie Smith" is the pseudonym of the CEO.