China blocks VPNs, making Great Firewall circumvention harder

The Great Firewall of China is a famously totalitarian measure taken by the Chinese government to control what its citizens are able to see and do online. As with any such blockade, where there's a will there's a way, and people have long turned to VPNs to get around the firewall. But with a new 14-month crackdown on the use of such tools, the situation just got a little trickier. While on the face of it the announcement from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in China seems like a new one, it is really just a drive to… [Continue Reading]