Chinese Man Gets 5-Year Prison for Running 'Unauthorized' VPN Service

[StLuis DF Member Posts:70 Threads:55 Reputation 0]

While continuing its crackdown on services that help Chinese citizens to bypass Great Firewall, Chinese authorities have sentenced a man to five-and-a-half years in prison for selling a VPN service without obtaining a proper license from the government.

Earlier this year, the Chinese government announced a ban on "unauthorized" VPN services, making it mandatory for companies to obtain an appropriate license from the government in order to operate in the country.

Citizens in China usually make use of VPN and Proxy services to bypass the country's Great Firewall, also known as the Golden Shield project, which employs a variety of tricks to censor the Internet in the country.

The Great Firewall project already blocked access to more than 150 out of the world's 1,000 top websites, which includes Google, Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox, Tumblr, and The Pirate Bay in the country:
https://thehackernews.com/2017/12/china-vpn-great-firewall.html

[DenzelisWiZRD DF Member Posts:2 Threads:1 Reputation 0]

that sucks. where is free speech?

[leo85631 DF Member Posts:58 Threads:0 Reputation 0]

Wow, good thing i am not Chinese.
Internet is pretty much useless over there.

[leyer DF Member Posts:5 Threads:0 Reputation 0]

china is crazy!! :o

[myrr12 DF Member Posts:19 Threads:0 Reputation 0]

china is so strict wtf it's wrong af

[NTL DF Member Posts:80 Threads:17 Reputation 0]

Communist China doing what they do best.

[ruoruo6 DF Member Posts:20 Threads:0 Reputation 0]

China very ugly

[herbox DF Member Posts:19 Threads:3 Reputation 0]

I think China is devil