article_snippet.sent: (CNN)China's cybercensors have long used a "Great Firewall" to block CNN)China's cybercensors citizens from reading critical articles from Western news websites or consuming other content
article_snippet.sent: CNN)China's cybercensors disapproves of.
article_snippet.sent: The reason Chinese censors are taking that risk: Free-speech cyberactivists have found ways to get around the Great Firewall and give Chinese readers greater access to the West's free press.
article_snippet.sent: This might include all emails headed in and out of China, Scott-Railton said.
article_snippet.sent: One of the "Great Cannon's targets that the researchers studied was an obvious one -- Greatfire.org, run by Chinese expats bent on fighting Beijing's censorship.
article_snippet.sent: They monitor Chinese citizens' access to international news sites such as German news service Deutsche Welle or The Tibet Post.
article_snippet.sent: Greatfire.org hosted two GitHub repositories that contained computer code allowing Chinese readers to get around the Great Firewall and read The New York Times in Chinese.
article_snippet.sent: Critical articles from The New York Times in Chinese are a particular fly in the ointment for Beijing, and China has turned away at least three of the paper's reporters in short succession, according to a U.S. congressional commission on China.
article_snippet.sent: Greatfire.org says Greatfire.org suspects the attack may have been in response to a Wall Street Journal article on Wall Street Journal struggle to circumvent Chinese censors.