Golden Shield

English[edit]

Synonym of Great Firewall of China
- 2010 January 13, Tim Stevens, “China's cyberwar goes beyond Google”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:
  China's Golden Shield has long been a byword for internet censorship.
- 2018 June 29, Elizabeth C Economy, “The great firewall of China: Xi Jinping’s internet shutdown”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:
  In the late 1990s, Fang worked on developing the “Golden Shield” – transformative software that enabled the government to inspect any data being received or sent, and to block destination IP addresses and domain names.