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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsChina moves to block internet VPNs from 2018
China will completely block access to much of the global internet as part of a sweeping crackdown aimed at suppressing dissent and maintaining the Communist partys grip on power.
The government has ordered Chinas three telecommunications companies to completely block access to virtual private networks, or VPNs, by February 2018, Bloomberg News reported, citing anonymous sources. The three internet providers, China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom, are all state-owned.
China operates the largest internet censorship regime in the world, blocking access to thousands of websites including Google, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Internet controls also mean news and commentary critical of the ruling Communist party and information about events like the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre are almost impossible to find within China.
But millions of Chinese citizens circumvent Chinas censorship system, known as the Great Firewall, by using a VPN, allowing unfettered access to any website.
The latest directive comes as China prepares for a twice a decade political meeting in Beijing in late 2017, with various factions within the government jockeying for dominance in any potential shuffle of top officials. It also comes on the heels of a 14-month cleanup of internet services announced in January, part of president Xi Jinpings push for so-called internet sovereignty.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/11/china-moves-to-block-internet-vpns-from-2018?CMP=share_btn_tw
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China moves to block internet VPNs from 2018 (Original Post)
yuiyoshida
Jul 2017
OP
surely Ivanka will speak out against this travesty affecting her wage slaves in china nt
msongs
Jul 2017
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msongs
(67,193 posts)1. surely Ivanka will speak out against this travesty affecting her wage slaves in china nt
Takket
(21,424 posts)2. to paraphrase princess Leia...
The more they tighten their grip, the more systems will slip through their fingers...
bobalew
(321 posts)3. Several large US companies use VPN to keep their data safe and for corporate infrastructure
Well there goes the corporate infrastructure for US and other international companies doing business in China....
moondust
(19,917 posts)4. I'm sure they'll pull out
of the awful communist country that suppresses freedom and cracks down on dissent! I mean COMMUNISM!!!! TOTALITARIANISM!!!! Where are all the freedom lovers who preached the terrible evils of communism for almost a century?
Oh, I guess they're home counting all the money they've made off the cheap Chinese labor kept in line by totalitarian government.
Ivanka? Ivanka? Princess?
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)5. And a work around will appear almost inatantly.
The internet does not like captivity.
winstars
(4,213 posts)6. Great, no more FAKE NEWS for the Chinese people...
Remember, tRump loves him a strongman...
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