We monitor and challenge internet censorship in China

	SessionsUsers Last 30 daysLast yearAll time Download stats
GreatFire Websites
	FreeBrowser StartPage We have directed Chinese internet users more than 13 million times to censored news stories about government corruption, politics, scandals and other "sensitive" information.	3,664,068
	FreeWeChat No other website restores and republishes censored information from WeChat, China's ubiquitous and most popular application. Our dataset grows larger each and every day and provides a real-time and accurate litmus test of the information that the Chinese authorities find most threatening.	518,070
	FreeBrowser.org Promotes FreeBrowser.	31,988
	FreeWeibo We mimic the look and feel of the real Weibo website, but instead of presenting a "harmonized" version of the popular social media network, we restore and integrate censored and deleted posts (currently numbering more than 300,000), so that Chinese can access a real-time view of the real discussions that are taking place online in China.	12,374
	GreatFire.org This website.	6,647
	GreatFire Analyzer No other website has accumulated as much data as we have around the blocking of websites and keywords. We make ourselves available to the media and have been quoted in thousands of news stories.	5,765
	Circumvention Central No other website tests the speed and stability of free and paid circumvention tools from China. We provide an unbiased, data-driven view of what is working and what is not so that Chinese can make informed decisions when choosing a circumvention tool.	3,392
	Apple Censorship Apple actively censors their own App Stores all around the world and reveal few details on which apps they censor and why they even censor in the first place. With AppleCensorship.Com, GreatFire aims to expose Apple’s widespread censorship and its consequences, and to change the way Apple manages its App Stores.	784
GreatFire Open Source
	Envoy C and Java Library derived from Chromium Cronet which can be used to make Android apps resistant to censorship
	RedirectWhenBlocked Thousands of websites are blocked in China. One approach to tackle this is to create mirror websites.

About Us

We are an anonymous organization based in China. We launched our first project in 2011 in an effort to help bring transparency to online censorship in China. Now we focus on helping Chinese to freely access information. Apart from being widely discussed in most major mass media, GreatFire has also been the subject of a number of academic papers from various research institutions. FreeWeibo.com won the 2013 Deutsche Welle “Best Of Online Activism” award in the “Best Innovation” category. In 2016, GreatFire won a Digital Activism fellowship from Index on Censorship.

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