How Pakistan Govt Plans to Implement China-like Firewall to Block Social Media

How Pakistan Govt Plans to Implement China-like Firewall to Block Social Media

Pakistan now joins countries like China, Iran, Turkey, and Russia in employing a national firewall to regulate internet content. The Pakistani media has reported that the country will be implementing a firewall to control social media access to X (formerly Twitter), Facebook and YouTube. The Pakistan government has agreed to the internet service providers to …

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China’s ‘young seniors’ and ‘elderly youths’ mingle in internet slang as users poke fun at rat race

China’s ‘young seniors’ and ‘elderly youths’ mingle in internet slang as users poke fun at rat race

Discussion of the phrase sprouted last week when Ma Jiantang, former party secretary of the Development Research Center of the State Council, stated at a forum that individuals aged 60 to 70 should be regarded as “young seniors” because of their good health and continued desire to work. It reflects China’s lopsided demographic landscape, as …

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China amps up calls for ‘unified’ computing network to empower e-commerce and underpin AI

China amps up calls for ‘unified’ computing network to empower e-commerce and underpin AI

“By connecting large and small power resources across the country to form a unified dispatched computing power network, computing power can be connected … and used immediately, like water and electricity,” it added. China premier balks at US blacklist with visit to sanctioned surveillance giant Government officials aim to link up existing hardware from supercomputing …

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China Internet: China claims world’s fastest internet with 1.2 terabit-per-second network

China Internet: China claims world’s fastest internet with 1.2 terabit-per-second network

Huawei Technologies Co. and China Mobile Ltd. have built a 3,000 kilometer (1,860-mile) internet network linking Beijing to the south, which the country is touting as its latest technological breakthrough.The two firms teamed up with Tsinghua University and research provider Cernet.com Corp. to build what they claim is the world’s first internet network to achieve …

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