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Chinese Students Bypass 'Great Firewall' to Access ChatGPT for Help With Homework, Learn Languages
Chinese school students are bypassing the country's "Great Firewall" to access OpenAI's ChatGPT service to cut down on time spent doing homework or to improve their language skills. Meanwhile, teachers in the country have expressed concerns over the possibilities of cheating and plagiarism.
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Yahoo, LinkedIn, Fortnite: Why Are Foreign Tech Firms Pulling Out of China?
Yahoo is leaving the China market, suspending its services there as of Monday amid what it says is an “increasingly challenging” business and legal environment.
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Clubhouse App Said to Be Blocked in China, Added to ‘Great Firewall’
Clubhouse access was blocked in China, users and an anti-censorship watchdog said, ending a brief window that allowed thousands of mainland users to join in discussions often censored in China.
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Clubhouse App Gives Chinese Rare Access To Uncensored Topics
Chinese internet users are flocking to a rare uncensored app to breach the "Great Firewall" and freely discuss taboo topics, including the mass detention of Uighurs, democracy protests in Hong Kong and the concept of Taiwanese independence.
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China Unveils Global Data Security Initiative, Says Some Countries Bullying Others
China announced an initiative on Tuesday to establish global standards on data security, saying it wanted to promote multilateralism in the area at a time when "individual countries" were "bullying" others and "hunting" companies.
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Alibaba Cloud Helps Chinese Students, Foreign Schools Scale Great Firewall
China’s Alibaba Group plans to help local students as well as foreign universities skirt the country’s strict Web controls. The nation’s Great Firewall not only blocks websites deemed sensitive by the government, but also slows loading speeds of overseas sites.
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Chinese Users Saw Zoom as a Window Through the 'Great Firewall'
Zoom Video Communications has gained a following in China in recent months from users ranging from underground churches to feminists who saw it as a rare way to connect with the world beyond the reach of state censors.
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"All The Forces": China's Global Social Media Push Over Hong Kong Protests
While little news or video footage of the Hong Kong protests made its way into mainland China in the early weeks, the subject now dominates the news and most-read topic lists on China's Twitter-like Weibo, with calls for Chinese citizens to take action to "protect Hong Kong".
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Bing’s Day-Long Outage in China Believed to Be Technical Error, Not Censors' Block
Search engine Bing's outage in China last week was reportedly a technical error, rather than an intentional censorship block.
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Microsoft Bing Search Engine Inaccessible in China
Microsoft's Bing search engine was inaccessible in China on Thursday, with social media users fearing it could be the latest foreign website to be blocked by censors.
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China's Former Internet Czar Faces Corruption Probe
China's former internet czar, who oversaw a tightening of online censorship during his tenure, has become the latest top Communist Party figure to be ensnared in the country's anti-corruption drive.
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US President Trump 'Will Tweet What He Wants' Inside China's Great Firewall
President Donald Trump will not curtail his notorious Twitter missives during his visit to China even though the social media platform is blocked by a "Great Firewall", a US official said Wednesday.
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Apple's China Problem Highlights Conundrum for Tech Sector
"There is a belief that millennials really want companies to be more active in protecting people's rights and free speech."
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Speaks Up About Removal of VPN Apps in China
"We would obviously rather not remove the apps, but like in other countries, we obey the laws where we do business," Cook said.
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Amazon China Partner Tells Users to Stop Using Illegal VPNs
The instruction comes after Apple removed VPN services from its Chinese app store over the weekend.
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Chinese Students Bypass 'Great Firewall' to Access ChatGPT for Help With Homework, Learn Languages
Chinese school students are bypassing the country's "Great Firewall" to access OpenAI's ChatGPT service to cut down on time spent doing homework or to improve their language skills. Meanwhile, teachers in the country have expressed concerns over the possibilities of cheating and plagiarism.
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Yahoo, LinkedIn, Fortnite: Why Are Foreign Tech Firms Pulling Out of China?
Yahoo is leaving the China market, suspending its services there as of Monday amid what it says is an “increasingly challenging” business and legal environment.
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Clubhouse App Said to Be Blocked in China, Added to ‘Great Firewall’
Clubhouse access was blocked in China, users and an anti-censorship watchdog said, ending a brief window that allowed thousands of mainland users to join in discussions often censored in China.
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Clubhouse App Gives Chinese Rare Access To Uncensored Topics
Chinese internet users are flocking to a rare uncensored app to breach the "Great Firewall" and freely discuss taboo topics, including the mass detention of Uighurs, democracy protests in Hong Kong and the concept of Taiwanese independence.
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China Unveils Global Data Security Initiative, Says Some Countries Bullying Others
China announced an initiative on Tuesday to establish global standards on data security, saying it wanted to promote multilateralism in the area at a time when "individual countries" were "bullying" others and "hunting" companies.
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Alibaba Cloud Helps Chinese Students, Foreign Schools Scale Great Firewall
China’s Alibaba Group plans to help local students as well as foreign universities skirt the country’s strict Web controls. The nation’s Great Firewall not only blocks websites deemed sensitive by the government, but also slows loading speeds of overseas sites.
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Chinese Users Saw Zoom as a Window Through the 'Great Firewall'
Zoom Video Communications has gained a following in China in recent months from users ranging from underground churches to feminists who saw it as a rare way to connect with the world beyond the reach of state censors.
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"All The Forces": China's Global Social Media Push Over Hong Kong Protests
While little news or video footage of the Hong Kong protests made its way into mainland China in the early weeks, the subject now dominates the news and most-read topic lists on China's Twitter-like Weibo, with calls for Chinese citizens to take action to "protect Hong Kong".
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Bing’s Day-Long Outage in China Believed to Be Technical Error, Not Censors' Block
Search engine Bing's outage in China last week was reportedly a technical error, rather than an intentional censorship block.
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Microsoft Bing Search Engine Inaccessible in China
Microsoft's Bing search engine was inaccessible in China on Thursday, with social media users fearing it could be the latest foreign website to be blocked by censors.
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China's Former Internet Czar Faces Corruption Probe
China's former internet czar, who oversaw a tightening of online censorship during his tenure, has become the latest top Communist Party figure to be ensnared in the country's anti-corruption drive.
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US President Trump 'Will Tweet What He Wants' Inside China's Great Firewall
President Donald Trump will not curtail his notorious Twitter missives during his visit to China even though the social media platform is blocked by a "Great Firewall", a US official said Wednesday.
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Apple's China Problem Highlights Conundrum for Tech Sector
"There is a belief that millennials really want companies to be more active in protecting people's rights and free speech."
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Speaks Up About Removal of VPN Apps in China
"We would obviously rather not remove the apps, but like in other countries, we obey the laws where we do business," Cook said.
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Amazon China Partner Tells Users to Stop Using Illegal VPNs
The instruction comes after Apple removed VPN services from its Chinese app store over the weekend.
