China banned VPN services to build the Great Wall

Internet privacy is one of the biggest challenges in the connected world today, as governments around the world check the Internet, steal information and secretly monitor people.

China is such a country, they always want to strictly control the people and have long been known for harsh Internet censorship laws through China's Great Firewall.

The great firewall of China is the country's Golden Shield project to implement various network censorship measures, blocking access to many international newspapers and news sites and social networking sites. Assembly, including Google, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Dropbox and The Pirate Bay.

So, to overcome these restrictions and access blocked websites, millions of Chinese users have to resort to virtual private network (VPN) software to redirect their network traffic abroad, escaping from the Internet. Great firewall. But soon, this way will no longer work.

Virtual Private Network (Virtual Private Network) is a tool that helps to redirect users' Internet traffic securely through remote connections, thus protecting web browsing, hiding data addresses and helping to access websites. blocked.

GreenVPN, one of the most popular VPN software in China, has informed users on Monday that it will stop operating on July 1, according to management's request, according to Bloomberg.

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Not only GreenVPN, many users also said that at the end of the week, they could not use SuperVPN, another popular VPN service on their mobile phones, although the cause is unknown due to the software itself or the government requires. .

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China is a country with strict Internet censorship

This may be part of the new Ministry of Industry and Information Technology rule set announced earlier this year in which the use or operation of VPN software without the permission of The government is considered illegal.

According to the ministry, 'all the special VPN and cable services on the continent must be approved by the Government, making it possible for most domestic VPN service providers to serve 730 million users to become unlawful.'

The suspension of the VPN service is used to 'enhance the bearing of information security management,' the ministry said. However, this is not yet one of the priorities for online content control in China.