Henan Develops Its Own Regional Great Firewall, Adding Layers to China’s Censorship

Henan Develops Its Own Regional Great Firewall, Adding Layers to China’s Censorship

Researchers from the censorship monitoring platform Great Firewall Report (GFW Report) published an investigation last week that “sounds the alarm” about the emergence of regional online censorship in China. They noted that in August 2023, netizens in Henan began reporting an uptick in inaccessible websites that were accessible elsewhere in the country. Their investigation found no evidence of region-specific censorship in the other areas analyz…