(Beijing News) The US media reported that Chinese officials instructed technology companies to expand their review of domestic protests and adopt action to curb access to virtual private networks (VPN).
The Wall Street Journal quoted people familiar with the matter and said that the National Internet Information Office of China issued instructions to Tencent and Byte Betting on Tuesday (November 29) to increase the Internet reviewers, and increase attention and protests last week.Controlling content, especially the demonstration of Chinese universities and a fire of Xinjiang.
People familiar with the matter said that the China National Internet Information Office also requires China's search engines, e -commerce companies, and Internet content platforms to delete information about how to use VPN information and sales advertisements, and to limit VPN -related entries.
In major cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, some people went to the streets to mourn the fire in Urumqi, Xinjiang last week, and at the same time protested the severe control measures implemented under the "dynamic clearing zero" policy.
During this period, some people used VPN to bypass China's firewalls to spread videos, pictures and other contents of protests on social media platforms such as Twitter, which were banned in China.
It is reported that many Chinese Internet companies have withdrawn from protest videos.
After the protesters use white paper as a symbol of dissatisfaction with the official, Chinese social media also tried to filter out the search results of the word.
VPN downloads during the Chinese protests surge
A Surfshark spokesman for VPN providers headquarters in Amsterdam said VPN downloads have increased during the protests in China.
A spokesman said that as the Chinese government tried to make the citizens more difficult to use these tools, the failure request in China also increased in the same period.
The Digital Research Office of the Atlantic Council of the American Think Tank studied the Chinese online speech researcher Tibo that Chinese officials often strengthened the control of VPN sales and access when the social struggle incident occurred.
