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The Golden Shield Project, also referred to as the "great firewall of China," is a project managed by the Ministry of Public Security division of the Chinese government. As its nickname implies, the objective of the project is to monitor and censor what the Citizens of China can and cannot see, via an online network.
In 1996, the Great Firewall was deployed in China, under the direction of the Chinese Ministry of Public Security. In 2013, the administration of the Great Firewall shifted to the Cyberspace Administration of China.
The Great Firewall of China is the term coined by western media to refer to the combination of evolving tools, services, and rules the Chinese government uses to block specific internet content within China's borders.
Users in China got access to the internet in 1994. By 1997, the Ministry of Public Security issued a series of laws to censor it and prohibited users from distributing information that could cause resistance, reveal state secrets, or show content related to pornography, murder, gambling, violence, or activities that affect network security. In 1998, the ruling party, Chinese Communist Party (CCP), officially launched the GFW project.
