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For years, Beijing has played a cat-and-mouse game with anyone trying to breach its Great Firewall of internet censorship. Recently, however, it has switched gears from high-tech censorship to old-fashioned shakedown, as the Ministry of Industry and...

Groups fear being forced to use expensive VPN software surveilled by Beijing.

Tim Cook has responded to criticisms that Apple is quietly removing apps from the App Store for the Chinese government.

Days after Apple yanked anti-censorship tools off its app store in China, another major American technology company is moving to implement the country’s tough restrictions on online content.

Another big political meeting, another crackdown on Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)—the location-shifting software many in China use to access websites banned by its government, such as Facebook, YouTube and Google.

The BBC understands that as many as 60 VPNs were pulled over the weekend. Apple said it was legally required to remove them because they did not comply with new regulations. It refused to confirm the exact number of apps withdrawn, but did not deny...

Over the weekend, China announced a new, year-long crackdown on “unauthorized Internet connections.”

Determined Chinese internet users turn to Virtual private Networks....

The Great Firewall is fluid, and restrictions get stricter or looser based on political needs.

Firewall-hopping technologies see activist programmers and Chinese censors engaged in a cat-and-mouse game.