China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology pledged in January to step up enforcement against unauthorised VPNs, and warned corporations to confine such services to internal use. Photo: EPA
Beijing reportedly orders ban on all personal VPN accounts by February
China’s government reportedly ordered state-run telecoms firms to bar people from using VPNs, services that skirt censorship limits by routing web traffic abroad
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Censorship in China
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology pledged in January to step up enforcement against unauthorised VPNs, and warned corporations to confine such services to internal use. Photo: EPA