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China blocks internet anticensorship tools ahead of 20th party congress as the Great Firewall grows in sophistication
- More than 100 people have reported having their servers blocked for using proxies that disguise censorship circumvention as regular web traffic
- The move marks an escalation of the Great Firewall’s censorship ahead of the party congress expected to extend President Xi Jinping’s term in power
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Users of a number of popular censorship circumvention tools are reporting that their servers are being blocked in an apparent escalation of China’s crackdown on such tools ahead of this month’s 20th party congress, according to the censorship monitoring group Great Firewall (GFW) Report.
More than 100 users reported that their servers hosting the tools, which are specifically designed to avoid detection by China’s Great Firewall, have been blocked, the GFW Report said in a post on GitHub.
The identified protocols are known for their use of transport layer security (TLS), the ubiquitous encryption standard that makes secure communication on the web possible.
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This is supposed to make private proxy servers look like normal web traffic, unlike traditional virtual private networks (VPNs).
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All of the blocked proxy protocols – trojan, Xray, TLS+Websocket, VLESS, and gRPC – are used in the V2Ray platform that allows users to easily switch between them.
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