Privacy and freedom of speech in China have long been on a downward trajectory, continuing to decline with each passing day. Every new law makes human rights one step closer to circling the drain. China’s privacy and speech laws are designed not only to burden those in China and rob their citizens of their voices, […]
In an effort to prevent VPN use in China and thus the ability to bypass harsh censorship rule, China is now cracking down on VPN apps running inside China by forcing telecom operators to prevent customers from using VPN. The Chinese government intends for all VPNs to be completely blocked by February 2018. By using […]
China’s latest round of censorship is an attack not only on online freedom of speech, but also an attack on the country’s LBGT community. While pornographic content is already banned on China’s internet, this new form of censorship on online LBGT content is more widespread and bans the “portrayal” of abnormality rather than explicit content. […]
Starting this July 1st of 2017, all Chinese mobile Android and iOS stores will start prohibiting users from downloading VPN apps. In some ways, this event is a bit unremarkable or meaningless since TorGuard’s website is already blocked in China on most app stores. It’s simply a matter of downloading TorGuard’s .apk file and installing […]
The Chinese government has become increasingly aggressive in its pursuits to lockdown and control users in China with their great internet firewall. Now, China’s plans to tighten web censorship will continue with a new law coming into effect next month that regulates all content published by foreign companies looking to do business within the country. Hong […]
It seems like almost every day there is some news about how China is cracking down on free speech on the internet. Social media is almost nonexistent without the use of a VPN like TorGuard, and content itself is starting to get banned or taken down so users can’t access it at all. China’s Ministry […]
