The Great Firewall of China: Praktik kebijakan sensor internet pada era Xi Jinping (2014-2021)

Abstract

Internet censorship policies refer to government actions in filtering and controlling what people can access on the internet.  The Great Firewall of China (GFW) is a term that refers to the internet censorship policy implemented by the Chinese government. Since the development of the internet in the 1990s, the Chinese government has continued to exercise control over the internet through censorship. In the era of Xi Jinping’s leadership, internet censorship policies continued to strengthen.  Various matters relating to policy practice are the subject of this article. The research method used in this article is the historical method, which includes topic selection, heuristic, verification, interpretation, and historiography stages. The results of the study show that the practice of internet censorship in the Xi Jinping era, which was carried out to safeguard China’s sovereignty and build China as a world cyber power, is substantially inconsistent with the values of freedom of access to information and expression on the internet as stipulated in the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights which China has also signed.