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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 butthurt on Tuesday January 24 2017, @03:45AM
According to the article, the plan is for connections to be available from providers who obtain governmental approval. Law-abiding businesses will be able to use those providers. The article seems to imply that some VPN services have already received approval.