Leaked files show a Chinese company is exporting the Great Firewall’s censorship technology - The Globe and Mail 9/18/25, 10:43 AM A screenshot of Geedge Networks's website. SUPPLIED Geedge’s technology suite has been used by client governments to “supercharge their control apparatus” and provide “unprecedented surveillance and censorship capabilities,” write researchers at InterSecLab, a digital forensics laboratory that provided key technical support for the team working on the Geedge leaks. Geedge did not respond to a detailed list of questions about findings in this article or by The Globe’s publishing partners. China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Cyberspace Administration of China also did not respond. On its website, Geedge boasts of its technology being used by more than 40 “global service providers,” without naming any country it works with. Even employee induction materials, contained within the leak, are vague, referring only to projects in “East Africa” and “South Asia.” Other documents, however, paint a fuller picture of Geedge’s global footprint. CSIS cautions tech startups about pitching at events organized by China After its founding in 2018, one of Geedge’s first clients was the government of Kazakhstan, to whom the company sold its flagship Tiangou Secure Gateway (TSG), which provides functions similar to China’s own Great Firewall, monitoring and filtering all web traffic that passes through it, as well as attempts to bypass such censorship. The same tool has been rolled out in Ethiopia and Myanmar, where it has been instrumental in enabling that country’s military junta to enforce a ban on VPNs. In many cases, Geedge works with other private companies, including internet service providers (ISPs) such as Safaricom in Ethiopia, or Frontiir and Ooredoo in Myanmar, to enact government censorship, the documents show. No ISPs that have partnered with Geedge responded to a request for comment. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-leaked-files-show-a…de&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer Page 3 of 9