In the United States, Apple clashed with the FBI under Barack Obama, and faces a fierce critic of an internet with no regulations on speech in Donald Trump, though so far the president and his agencies have taken no new actions. Why the China Apple Store withdrew VPN appsĪpple’s acquiescing to China’s demand seems at odds with the company’s stance as a protector of its customers’ privacy and the right to encrypt communications. The restrictions are wholesale: people looking for information about Taylor Swift have just as many restrictions as those trying to find out about the banned Qi Gong religious sect. It also censors and disrupts content on services located within China. The so-called Great Firewall disrupts VPN, TOR, and other connections, and has recently become more sophisticated in blocking. They’re also widely used to get around media lockouts that prevents people in one area from viewing video or listening to audio that isn’t licensed for their country or region.Ĭhina opposes the unrestricted access by its citizens and other residents of the global internet, blocking many key services and technologies like Facebook, Google search, and Twitter.
While it originated as a corporate tool decades ago to allow employees secure access into a company’s internal network, VPNs are used by hundreds of millions of people for privacy in democracies and dictatorships alike. VPNs allow encrypted tunnels of internet traffic between a user’s device and a destination VPN server elsewhere on the internet.
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