The Communist Party of China Hosts Internet Conference, Western Tech Giants Boycott in Protest

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[People News] It is quite ironic that the world's largest internet censorship party, the Communist Party of China, held the "World Internet" conference starting on November 7. This event, widely criticised as a waste of public resources and a grand deception, concluded yesterday in Wuzhen, mainland China. The conference, which the Communist Party boasted would feature guests from over 130 countries and regions under the theme of "open cooperation, security and inclusiveness, and a community with a shared future in cyberspace," saw a collective absence of major Western tech companies and relevant political figures. Notable firms such as Microsoft, Google, Oracle, and TSMC were all missing, delivering a significant blow to the Communist Party and further revealing its self-aggrandisement and the deceptive image of free speech it attempts to project.

The Communist Party has always viewed information dissemination as a crucial element for its regime's survival. Since the late 1980s, following the emergence of the internet, it has developed internet censorship technology. In 1998, the Communist Party proposed the "National Public Security Work Informationization" project, which became known externally as the "Golden Shield Project" (GFW) due to the use of the Communist Party's public security shield logo. Around the year 2000, Jiang Mianheng, son of Jiang Zemin, who was then Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, ordered the expenditure of 6 billion Renminbi to establish a "Chinese network independent of the international internet," designed to block foreign information and equipped with monitoring capabilities as a firewall.

Since 2010, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has upgraded its firewall into a larger-scale, top-secret initiative known as the "Great Information" project. This project features an ever-expanding list of sensitive words, aimed at blocking and monitoring the information reception and dissemination of 1.4 billion citizens, with costs exceeding 100 billion yuan and stability maintenance expenses surpassing military spending.

As reported by Wikipedia, China Mobile alone has blocked over 600,000 "undesirable" websites in addition to the Great Firewall, employing methods such as IP blocking, DNS poisoning, connection resets for HTTP connections, and SNI connection resets for HTTPS connections. Following 2010, the CCP has continuously enhanced and expanded its internet censorship technologies, making domestic suppression more rapid and agile. Wikipedia also references a report from GFWreport, an organisation that studies the Great Firewall, which states that by May 2025, certain provinces and regions will have independent censorship systems in addition to the Great Firewall. These systems will be deployed between provincial networks of internet operators and the national backbone network, primarily probing the Host field in HTTP headers and the SNI in TLS, and intercepting with TCP RST. The specifics of these systems differ significantly from the national-level Great Firewall, featuring a larger and more frequently updated censorship list.

For instance, in relation to comments on ambiguous death events, the CCP can delete and suppress various comments at any time and from any location. Public security or national security personnel can easily locate and arrest "undesirable" posters at their homes.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been actively arresting both domestic and foreign dissenters who oppose internet censorship. For instance, prior to May 2022, the CCP detained a manager from the R&D department of a technology company in Hangzhou, Ma Moumou (online alias Yaya). The CCP accused him of colluding with foreign anti-China hostile forces, forming an illegal organisation, drafting a political agenda, inciting the subversion of state power, and targeting young students as the primary group for incitement (by teaching them how to bypass the Great Firewall)...

Another example is Yang Zewei (online alias Qiao Xinxin), a resident of Hengyang, Hunan, who fled the CCP and had been hiding in Laos for several years. In May 2023, he launched the "Wall Demolition Movement." At the end of that month, he was arrested at his home in Vientiane, the capital of Laos, by six Chinese police officers and two Laotian police officers in a cross-border operation. Following this, one of the movement's leaders in Denmark, Ms Liu Dongling, received threats from the CCP...

As of now, there has been no news from those who were arrested.

According to the World Press Freedom Index published by Reporters Without Borders in May 2025, the CCP ranks third from the bottom in terms of press freedom globally. The CCP relies on lies to maintain its rule, fully aware that once the Chinese people gain access to truthful information and comprehend the historical and current atrocities that have devastated China, they will inevitably withdraw from it, abandon it, and dismantle it. This represents the only non-violent, cost-free method for the world to overcome it. Consequently, the CCP is making desperate efforts to block internet access.

This is precisely why, within the monopolised information environment known as the 'Great Firewall of China', the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) can secretly and brazenly persecute and massacre Chinese citizens, leading to numerous unrecorded cases such as those of Hu Xinyu, the chained woman, and Yu Menglong. The CCP can indiscriminately unleash violence against petitioners, rights defence lawyers, dissidents, pro-democracy activists, Falun Gong practitioners, and believers in underground churches who are not under CCP control. In particular, the CCP has committed countless bloody incidents and wrongful cases against Falun Gong practitioners who disseminate truthful information.

For instance, Falun Gong practitioner and mainland teacher, writer Wang Xueming, was persecuted to death on September 21, 2022, in the First Prison of Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, for spreading the truth.

Falun Gong practitioner Pang Xun, a host at Sichuan People's Broadcasting Station, was persecuted to death on December 2, 2022, in Lezhou Jiazhuo Prison for spreading the truth, at just thirty years old.

Poet, artist, and Falun Gong practitioner Xu Na was sentenced to eight years in the first instance on January 16, 2022, for posting domestic epidemic photos during the pandemic.

Falun Gong practitioner Huang Lianggang, a former middle school teacher and provincial newspaper reporter, was sentenced to one year of re-education through labour in 2003 for giving a CD to a colleague. During that time, he endured home searches, brainwashing, over ten hours of forced labour each day, exposure to the sun on the playground in summer, blood draws (suspected to be for organ harvesting tests), intimidation, and other forms of persecution. For nearly 20 years, since 2004, the CCP has relentlessly persecuted him, including detention, house arrest, job termination, cancellation of social security and medical insurance, and illegal abduction attempts to frame him as a drug addict for imprisonment, among other abuses...

Currently, the Chinese Communist Party is hosting the 12th World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit, while Western internet companies have collectively withdrawn. Netizens have commented: 'The thief shouts to catch the thief, how shameless!' A netizen by the name of g2j2 sarcastically remarked: 'Eunuchs gather to discuss the art of the bedroom.' An anonymous employee from 'Knownsec 知道創宇', one of the major suppliers targeted by the Ministry of State Security's hacking operations, revealed: 'More than 12,000 documents containing state-developed malware, zero-day vulnerabilities, and command and control (C2) systems have been leaked... The refusal of Western internet companies and political figures to participate in the CCP's deceptive internet conference serves as a form of protest against the CCP's actions, which not only involve internet censorship but also cyber hacking attacks on various countries worldwide.' △