Additional Materials

  • Executive Summary

    Download a PDF of this Executive Summary. China, its companies, and its citizens play a major role in the global internet: producing infrastructure, services, and content upon which people around the world depend. Yet, China’s extensive online censorship system remains poorly understood by most of the internet’s users, and the ways

  • Glossary

    Application layer - The part of the network stack that conducts high-level data management and translation, such as character encoding, data compression, encryption/decryption, and remote file access. HTTP and HTTPS protocols function at this layer. Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) - The set of rules governing how one router at the edge

  • Notes on China from a Computer Scientist

    The goal of this project is to explain both how China has built such an effective system for controlling the flow of information on the internet and why its leaders are willing to go to such lengths to do so. I’m a computer scientist, so the technical side of this