China is cracking down on domestic VPN usage
Jan24
It’s no secret that China exercises an immense amount of control over what its citizens can read or do online. Since 1997, the Chinese Internet has been behind a ‘great firewall’. Facebook, Twitter, even The New York Times – it’s all banned. One way around this is with a VPN, which allows you to tunnel your Internet through another computer. These can be located in countries where there isn’t pervasive Internet censorship, like the United States, Sweden, or Canada. China has repeatedly tried to crack down on these, but with limited success. It’s proven to be a cat-and-mouse game. For…
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