GreatFire hosts a testing system that allows visitors to test in real time the accessibility of a website from various locations within China. The organization's stated mission was to "bring transparency to the Great Firewall of China."[7] GreatFire also provides another test system: Blocky.
GreatFire has worked with BBC to make the Chinese-language BBC website available to users in China, despite it being blocked by the Great Firewall, by using a method known as collateral freedom[8] that mirrored content on widely used content delivery networks, such as Amazon CloudFront and CloudFlare, so that it would be too economically costly for censors to block.[9][10][11] The organization has since set up similar mirror sites for other blocked websites, such as Google and the New York Times, with a directory of links hosted on GitHub.[12]
For security reasons, the members of the organization remain anonymous and do not know much about each other to prevent the whole project from coming down in the event one would be caught by the Chinese government.[13]
GreatFire has been targeted with distributed denial-of-service attacks that attempt to take down the website by overloading its servers with traffic.[14] In April 2015 it was targeted by a Chinese attack tool named Great Cannon that redirected massive amounts of Internet traffic to servers used by GreatFire.[15]
In 2015, the Associated Press reported that GreatFire receives funding from a variety of sources, including the Open Technology Fund (OTF), a United States government-backed program at Radio Free Asia.[5] The Open Technology Fund says on its website that it gave Greatfire.org a $114,000 grant in 2014.[17] On its website, the organization identifies GreatFire as an "OTF-supported" initiative.[6]
^The website declares itself as a "non-profit organization." However, there is no evidence provided to support this claim, nor is there third-party evidence that it is registered in any jurisdiction.
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^"When did GreatFire.org launch?". GreatFire.org. Retrieved November 8, 2017.
^Biggs, John (March 19, 2015). "Anti-Censorship Service Greatfire Is Under Attack". TechCrunch. AOL Inc. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
^"Chinese anti-censorship group Greatfire.org suffers massive hack". The Guardian. March 20, 2015. Retrieved November 8, 2017.
^Boehler, Patrick (March 20, 2015). "Hackers Attack GreatFire.org, a Workaround for Websites Censored in China". The New York Times. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
^ abAssociated Press (2015-03-20). "Chinese anti-censorship group Greatfire.org suffers massive hack". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-06-24.
^ ab"China's Great Cannon". Open Technology Fund. Retrieved 2019-06-24.
^"Online Censorship In China - GreatFire". GreatFire.org. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
^Robinson, David; Yu, Harlan; An, Anne. (PDF). Open Internet Tools Project. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-07-01. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
^Meyer, David (November 24, 2014). "BBC uses "collateral freedom" system to bypass Chinese censorship". GigaOM. Gigaom, Inc. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
^Wilson, Mark (November 25, 2014). "GreatFire.org and BBC punch uncensored news through the Great Firewall of China". BetaNews. BetaNews, Inc. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
^Newman, Lily Hay (November 25, 2014). "The BBC Is Working With a Transparency Group to Bring Uncensored News Into China". Slate. The Slate Group LLC. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
^"GitHub: greatfire/wiki". GitHub. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
^Ritzen, Yarno (2018-06-21). "Meet the activists fighting the Great Chinese Firewall". Aljazeera.
^Russel, Jon (March 30, 2015). "These Activists Are Plotting To End Internet Censorship In China". TechCrunch. AOL Inc. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
^Perlroth, Nicole (April 10, 2015). "China Is Said to Use Powerful New Weapon to Censor Internet". The New York Times. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
^"不受屏蔽的"自由微博"" [Unblocked "Free Weibo"]. Deutsche Welle (in Chinese). May 17, 2013. Retrieved November 8, 2017.
^"Greatfire - Expanding Collateral Freedom". Open Technology Fund. Retrieved 2019-06-24.
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GreatFire GreatFire org is a website note 1 that monitors the status of websites censored by the Great Firewall of China 2 and helps Chinese Internet users circumvent the censorship and blockage of websites in China 3 4 Through an investigation by the Associated Press the website was found receiving funds from the United States government through its Open Technology Fund under Radio Free Asia 5 6 GreatFire orgFormation2011 1 TypeWebsitePurposeAdvocacy against Internet censorship in ChinaWebsiteen greatfire orgGreatFire hosts a testing system that allows visitors to test in real time the accessibility of a website from various locations within China The organization s stated mission was to bring transparency to the Great Firewall of China 7 GreatFire also provides another test system Blocky GreatFire has worked with BBC to make the Chinese language BBC website available to users in China despite it being blocked by the Great Firewall by using a method known as collateral freedom 8 that mirrored content on widely used content delivery networks such as Amazon CloudFront and CloudFlare so that it would be too economically costly for censors to block 9 10 11 The organization has since set up similar mirror sites for other blocked websites such as Google and the New York Times with a directory of links hosted on GitHub 12 For security reasons the members of the organization remain anonymous and do not know much about each other to prevent the whole project from coming down in the event one would be caught by the Chinese government 13 GreatFire has been targeted with distributed denial of service attacks that attempt to take down the website by overloading its servers with traffic 14 In April 2015 it was targeted by a Chinese attack tool named Great Cannon that redirected massive amounts of Internet traffic to servers used by GreatFire 15 A sister site FreeWeibo monitors and makes available content from leading Chinese microblogging site Sina Weibo that has been censored and deleted by Chinese authorities under the Great Firewall 16 In 2015 the Associated Press reported that GreatFire receives funding from a variety of sources including the Open Technology Fund OTF a United States government backed program at Radio Free Asia 5 The Open Technology Fund says on its website that it gave Greatfire org a 114 000 grant in 2014 17 On its website the organization identifies GreatFire as an OTF supported initiative 6 Contents 1 See also 2 Notes 3 References 4 External linksSee also editOONI Turkey BlocksNotes edit The website declares itself as a non profit organization However there is no evidence provided to support this claim nor is there third party evidence that it is registered in any jurisdiction References edit When did GreatFire org launch GreatFire org Retrieved November 8 2017 Biggs John March 19 2015 Anti Censorship Service Greatfire Is Under Attack TechCrunch AOL Inc Retrieved April 10 2015 Chinese anti censorship group Greatfire org suffers massive hack The Guardian March 20 2015 Retrieved November 8 2017 Boehler Patrick March 20 2015 Hackers Attack GreatFire org a Workaround for Websites Censored in China The New York Times Retrieved April 10 2015 a b Associated Press 2015 03 20 Chinese anti censorship group Greatfire org suffers massive hack The Guardian ISSN 0261 3077 Retrieved 2019 06 24 a b China s Great Cannon Open Technology Fund Retrieved 2019 06 24 Online Censorship In China GreatFire GreatFire org Retrieved April 10 2015 Robinson David Yu Harlan An Anne Collateral Freedom A Snapshot of Chinese Internet Users Circumventing Censorship PDF Open Internet Tools Project Archived from the original PDF on 2013 07 01 Retrieved 28 December 2016 Meyer David November 24 2014 BBC uses collateral freedom system to bypass Chinese censorship GigaOM Gigaom Inc Retrieved April 10 2015 Wilson Mark November 25 2014 GreatFire org and BBC punch uncensored news through the Great Firewall of China BetaNews BetaNews Inc Retrieved April 10 2015 Newman Lily Hay November 25 2014 The BBC Is Working With a Transparency Group to Bring Uncensored News Into China Slate The Slate Group LLC Retrieved April 10 2015 GitHub greatfire wiki GitHub Retrieved April 10 2015 Ritzen Yarno 2018 06 21 Meet the activists fighting the Great Chinese Firewall Aljazeera Russel Jon March 30 2015 These Activists Are Plotting To End Internet Censorship In China TechCrunch AOL Inc Retrieved April 10 2015 Perlroth Nicole April 10 2015 China Is Said to Use Powerful New Weapon to Censor Internet The New York Times Retrieved April 10 2015 不受屏蔽的 自由微博 Unblocked Free Weibo Deutsche Welle in Chinese May 17 2013 Retrieved November 8 2017 Greatfire Expanding Collateral Freedom Open Technology Fund Retrieved 2019 06 24 External links editOfficial website nbsp This article related to a non profit organization is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte nbsp This Internet related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte nbsp This 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