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Here are all the major US tech companies blocked behind China's 'Great Firewall'

Here are all the major US tech companies blocked behind China's 'Great Firewall'

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A protester against Chinese internet censorship in Germany.

  • $4the electronics giant$4 $4 in the US over national security fears the Chinese company's technology is being used for state-sponsored spying.
  • While Huawei has $4 in the US, China has long blocked major US tech companies, including Facebook and Google, from operating in the country.
  • Here are the major tech companies that are blocked in China behind the country's so-called "Great Firewall" of internet censorship.
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The $4 is running$4 since the Chinese tech giant Huawei was blacklisted from doing business in the US.

President Donald Trump's reason for blacklisting Huawei revolves around national security fears that the company's technology could be used for Chinese government-sponsored spying. The move, which also $4 buying parts and components from American companies, could prove to have a hugely detrimental effect on Huawei's production of its popular $4 and $4.

Meanwhile, US tech companies have been largely banned from doing business in China $4. Communist-ruled China has long maintained $4 on which websites and social media platforms are accessible in the country - and which are blocked behind $4 of internet censorship.

That ban prevents companies like Facebook, Google, and Dropbox from reaching the country's over $4. Still, it doesn't mean that China doesn't factor into the equation for those companies: Facebook, for example, saw an estimated $5 billion in ad revenue from Chinese-based companies in 2018, making the country the company's second largest ad market, $4.

That "firewall" isn't impenetrable, either, as some Chinese citizens have found ways to circumvent blocks on websites by using $4

Here are the all the major US tech companies that are blocked from use in China, according to $4:

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