China tightens VPN regulation
The government of the People’s Republic of China has informed local providers and telcos about the need to block the illegal use of VPN by individuals. Companies operating in the country will continue to use the services of officially registered VPN service providers.
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These measures followed immediately after the next blockages of more than 60 entertainment sites and profiles in social networks. In addition, the content of the social service Weibo Corp was partially limited , and the company announced its readiness for more active work with the state.
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At the end of June, it became known that GreenVPN and Haibei VPN, locally known VPN services, had already notified customers about the impossibility of providing the service and in fact ceased cooperation with Chinese users in early July.
The market for Chinese VPN services continued to be "gray" for many years. Now he can lose the main audience or completely cease to exist.
The last initiative to tighten the regulation of VPN will not fail to affect the activities of private individuals, but does not provide for direct sanctions. Companies and their employees will be able to continue using officially registered services.
Representatives of the scientific community, while remaining anonymous, stated that such regulation would affect the quality of the research and exchange of experience with colleagues from other countries. Many of them expressed dissatisfaction with the level of local services and search engines, telling how they had to resort to using VPN services for many years in order to “keep up” with the international scientific community, read recent scientific papers and communicate with colleagues in forbidden social networks. networks and messengers.
After reporting the suspension of GreenVPN and Haibei VPN, their foreign counterparts, such as KeepSolid VPN, VyprVPN, ExpressVPN and PureVPN, announced an “influx” of users and stressed that they did not see any problems with the Chinese audience.
And they immediately began receiving notifications, including those from Apple, that the application would be removed from the Apple Storefront in China at the request of the authorities. Representatives of ExpressVPN and VyprVPN told reporters from The New York Times about this (by the way, the app of the publication itself was similarly hidden from the Chinese version of the Apple Store).
UPD : BBC journalists wrote that Apple has already removed more than 60 applications on this topic from the Chinese version of the Apple Store.
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/ Flickr / Surian Soosay / CCThese measures followed immediately after the next blockages of more than 60 entertainment sites and profiles in social networks. In addition, the content of the social service Weibo Corp was partially limited , and the company announced its readiness for more active work with the state.
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At the end of June, it became known that GreenVPN and Haibei VPN, locally known VPN services, had already notified customers about the impossibility of providing the service and in fact ceased cooperation with Chinese users in early July.
The market for Chinese VPN services continued to be "gray" for many years. Now he can lose the main audience or completely cease to exist.
The last initiative to tighten the regulation of VPN will not fail to affect the activities of private individuals, but does not provide for direct sanctions. Companies and their employees will be able to continue using officially registered services.
At the moment there is no explanation as to how things will be if the person prefers to work from home or go on a business trip
Representatives of the scientific community, while remaining anonymous, stated that such regulation would affect the quality of the research and exchange of experience with colleagues from other countries. Many of them expressed dissatisfaction with the level of local services and search engines, telling how they had to resort to using VPN services for many years in order to “keep up” with the international scientific community, read recent scientific papers and communicate with colleagues in forbidden social networks. networks and messengers.
After reporting the suspension of GreenVPN and Haibei VPN, their foreign counterparts, such as KeepSolid VPN, VyprVPN, ExpressVPN and PureVPN, announced an “influx” of users and stressed that they did not see any problems with the Chinese audience.
And they immediately began receiving notifications, including those from Apple, that the application would be removed from the Apple Storefront in China at the request of the authorities. Representatives of ExpressVPN and VyprVPN told reporters from The New York Times about this (by the way, the app of the publication itself was similarly hidden from the Chinese version of the Apple Store).
UPD : BBC journalists wrote that Apple has already removed more than 60 applications on this topic from the Chinese version of the Apple Store.
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/334406/
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