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China is reinforcing the Great Firewall with a 14-month crackdown on unauthorized VPNs:
Beijing has launched a 14-month nationwide campaign to crack down on unauthorised internet connections, including virtual private networks (VPN) services – a technology that allows users to bypass the country's infamous Great Firewall. A notice released by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on Sunday said that all special cable and VPN services on the mainland needed to obtain prior government approval – a move making most VPN service providers in the country of 730 million internet users illegal. The "clean up" of the nation's internet connections would start immediately and run until March 31, 2018, the notice said.
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(Score: 2) by frojack on Monday January 23 2017, @07:16PM
It sounds like they haven't figured out how to compromise just about every VPN platform out there unlike GHCQ and the NSA. Otherwise they would prefer to listen, rather than shutdown all the VPNs. Keeping friends close and enemies closer must have gone out of style since Sun Tzu's time.
I suppose they are also killing off things like sshuttle which can set up the equivalent of a vpn on the fly, transfer data and then tear it down just as fast.
Even Russia has given up on trying to censor the net. I can't understand why China remains so adamant about this.
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by bob_super on Monday January 23 2017, @07:37PM
> Even Russia has given up on trying to censor the net. I can't understand why China remains so adamant about this.
Why is the US still waging a war on pot, and starting a new one on facts?
In the case of China, it's definitely about control, since any "real news" about the party members doing improper things threatens the almighty Stability.
(Score: 2) by Lagg on Monday January 23 2017, @08:36PM
The pharmaceutical companies have every incentive and every resource to keep weed illegal because they are the world's most unethical drug dealers. One of the companies (besides an unnamed alcohol manufacturer collective) that funded the anti-prop 205 campaign here in AZ - the one that pushed complete lies and non-science read off a prompt by our clearly bought mayor in their commercials - was a fentanyl manufacturer ( http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-09-08/fentanyl-maker-donates-big-to-campaign-opposing-pot-legalization [usnews.com] ). The war on drugs continues because of things like that and because people with no experience with drugs or addiction continue to see addicts as evil people with no self-control. Leaving a vast weakness in public opinion that makes it pretty fucking trivial to keep the cycle going.
Also our government hates psychadelics because some of them including Psilocybin solve issues like alcoholism in timeframes of doses rather than full treatment plans. Hence them being terrified and slow to fund more research. It hurts the pharma companies they're deeply in the pockets of. I also assume that they don't like the whole "mind freeing" thing that good drugs in general tend to provide. But it's not just a matter of anything like that. As always it's mostly about monies.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 23 2017, @09:31PM
Hallelujah money!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDUrpPvU1_4 [youtube.com]
I don't much enjoy the song, but the lyrics are quite the indictment of our culture. The simple fact that money == superiority in the minds of many many people is a huge problem. People literally will believe a billionaire over a PhD in the field, such incredible stupidity.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 23 2017, @09:11PM
You call it a war on facts; I call it alternative facts.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday January 23 2017, @09:51PM
While I love the expression, I have a grave concern: Typical Alternative Current goes back and forth between positive and negative.
How could we possibly ever hear an equal amount Negative Facts from The Dearly Beloved Leaderissimo, since we will always be winning?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Lagg on Monday January 23 2017, @08:29PM
Or maybe they're following Sun Tzu closer than you think. It said something about masking your true thoughts and feelings to give the enemy a false sense of understanding right? Hell of a way to do it. We're so conditioned to surveillance in more-free countries than China being an open secret via leaks that maybe we're seeing a brute force approach incorrectly. They have tight enough control at the routing layer that it's probably hard to find out about things like shuttle in the first place. Which is why we might look into attaching links in our signatures in the future for these people's benefit that go to tor and the like.
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