The ruling Communist Party tries to block China’s internet users from seeing material deemed subversive or obscene. It is tightening control over VPNs, which create encrypted links between computers and can be used to see blocked websites. One popular service, Green VPN, told customers in June it had been ordered to close. In March, a 26-year-old entrepreneur who sold VPN service in Dongguan, near Hong Kong, was sentenced to nine months in prison. A software developer was arrested in August in Jiangsu province, near Shanghai, on charges he set up a business to sell unauthorized VPNs.

Source: National Post December 22, 2017 04:39 UTC