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canopic jug [soylentnews.org] writes:

On March 31^st new rules take effect in China banning VPNs and cross-border leased lines [scmp.com]. 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 vers ion of its App Store. VyprVPN, ExpressVPN, NordVPN, and a shrinking number of ot hers are still working to outpace the government, renting extra cloud servers fr om Amazon Web Services Inc. and the like to buoy their networks. They’re also wo rking on software that can make user activity look like permitted internet traff ic, sometimes by renting internet protocol addresses that have also been used by government-approved services.

Source : China’s Internet Underground Fights for Its Life [bloomberg.com]

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