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Leaked files show a Chinese company is exporting the Great Firewall’s censorship technology - The Globe and Mail 9/18/25, 10:43 AM Leaked files show a Chinese company is exporting the Great Firewall’s censorship technology JAMES GRIFFITHS ASIA CORRESPONDENT HONG KONG PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 8, 2025 https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-leaked-files-show-a…de&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer Page 1 of 9

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Date Published: Sep 8, 2025

Abstract: That record, reviewed by The Globe and Mail, is contained in a leak of more than 100,000 internal documents linked to Geedge Networks, a little-known Chinese company that has quietly assumed a key role in developing the Great Firewall and providing similar censorship capabilities to governments around the world, including in Myanmar, Pakistan, Ethiopia and Kazakhstan. The Globe – along with researchers at InterSecLab, Amnesty International, Justice For Myanmar, the Tor Project and reporters at Paper Trail Media – has spent months combing through the leak. The files offer a key insight not only into how Geedge exports cutting-edge censorship technology to its authoritarian clients, giving them capabilities they might not otherwise have, but also into the evolution of the Great Firewall itself.

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