China Has Escalated Internet Censorship To A New Level

China has long been locked in a struggle to censor the Internet, but recent actions have show the government is taking its efforts to a whole new level.

Using a virtual private networks (VPN) is a common way to get around China’s “Great Firewall,” as its sophisticated censorship apparatus is known. But on Thursday, Reuters reported that a number of popular VPN services had been blocked, including Golden Frog, StrongVPN and Astrill.
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