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posted by on Monday January 23 2017, @06:29PM   Printer-friendly
from the great-tunnel-of-china dept.

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.

Also at NYT and Time.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 23 2017, @09:11PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 23 2017, @09:11PM (#457806)

    You call it a war on facts; I call it alternative facts.

  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday January 23 2017, @09:51PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Monday January 23 2017, @09:51PM (#457813)

    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?