FreeWeibo is working towards a censorship-free China

2018-8-21 17:22

China’s internet has always been heavily censored by its government.  The heavy censorship, also know as The Great Firewall, restricts users from searching or sharing certain phrases and words online — like pictures of Winnie the Pooh — to ‘protect’ Chinese citizens, or so the government says.

Understandably, not everybody is happy with the ridiculously outdated policy. That why activists at GreatFire created FreeWeibo — a search engine that collects censored and deleted posts originally posted on Sina Weibo (China’s answer to Twitter). FreeWeibo doesn’t just raise awareness about China’s strict censorship laws, but also provides a diverse range of information for…

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