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China's ever-tighter web controls jolt companies, scientists
Associated Press ^ | Sep 10, 2017 12:12 AM EDT

Posted on 09/10/2017 9:29:15 PM PDT by Olog-hai

China’s campaign to stamp out use technology that allows web surfers to evade its internet filters is disrupting work and study for entrepreneurs, scientists and students. […]

After Beijing began clamping down on use of VPNs in January, dozens of activists and lawyers have been detained and a cybersecurity law tightened control on online data.

How many people might be affected is unclear, but consumer research firm GlobalWebIndex says a survey of Chinese web surfers this year found 14 percent use a VPN daily. …

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: china; internet; redchina; vpn
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To: Wuli

Well, who inspired Google and Facebook to be that way?

The Red Chinese dictators have coercion rather than authority. Authority means an unchanging moral law, and communism is against morality and absolutes. Why else is there nothing like a Second Amendment?


21 posted on 09/11/2017 8:17:08 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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