Adan E. Pasillas' Jr. Scholastic "China's Internet Crackdown"
Definition: A popular messaging app that allows you to send messages, pictures, videos and even voice recordings over the internet, rather than using your mobile network Sentence: Soon after, the messaging app WhatsApp was partly blocked by Chinese censors.
cyber police
Definition: a generic term for police and government agencies, departments and other organizations in charge of policing Internet in a number of countries and their major purposes of Internet police, depending on the state, are fighting cybercrime, as well as censorship and propaganda. Sentence: "If you hire a million network police, it still wouldn't be enough to filter 1.3 billion people's messages," Bao Pu, a Hong Kong-based publisher, told The Wall Street Journal. "But if you have a machine doing it, it can instantly block everything."
Firewall
Definition: computer hardware or software that prevents unauthorized access to private data (as on a company's local area network or intranet) by outside computer users (as of the Internet) Sentence: To control the web, China uses a system of filters and censors known as the Great Firewall.
virtual private networks (VPNs)
Definition: is a private network that uses a public network (usually the internet) to connect remote sites or users together. Sentence: But now, authorities are targeting VPNs and other tools used to get around the Great Firewall.
censorship
Definition: the system, practice, or institucion of censoring Sentence: Over the past several months, however, China has expanded its online censorship.
