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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday March 03 2018, @10:14AM   Printer-friendly
from the censorship++ dept.

On March 31st new rules take effect in China banning VPNs and cross-border leased lines. Bloomberg writes:

Censors have already eliminated hundreds of VPNs, which route user requests for sites through virtual networks located on the providers' servers, disguising their users' true locations or destinations. A few operators have been jailed, and over the summer Apple Inc. began removing VPN software from the Chinese version of its App Store. VyprVPN, ExpressVPN, NordVPN, and a shrinking number of others are still working to outpace the government, renting extra cloud servers from Amazon Web Services Inc. and the like to buoy their networks. They're also working on software that can make user activity look like permitted internet traffic, sometimes by renting internet protocol addresses that have also been used by government-approved services.

Source : China's Internet Underground Fights for Its Life


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  • (Score: 1) by tftp on Saturday March 03 2018, @09:59PM

    by tftp (806) on Saturday March 03 2018, @09:59PM (#647287) Homepage
    One Chinese guy, well educated, once told me that democracy in China will provoke a civil war. He said that China is a conglomerate of hundreds of regions, sometimes with their own dialects (but the same writing system.) Tensions between them were always kept under control by the empire. Today the party is that empire that holds things together.