China announces mass shutdown of VPNs that bypass Great Firewall

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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/01/china-announces-mass-shutdown-of-vpns-that-bypass-great-firewall/

[greenclaydog 6]

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/01/china-announces-mass-shutdown-of-vpns-that-bypass-great-firewall/

 

 

It's not in their power to control VPN's outside of the country. Best they can do is block them as they have before right?

 

Or are they planning to actually prevent VPN corporations to cease serving customers in China?

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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/01/china-announces-mass-shutdown-of-vpns-that-bypass-great-firewall/

 

 

It's not in their power to control VPN's outside of the country. Best they can do is block them as they have before right?

 

Or are they planning to actually prevent VPN corporations to cease serving customers in China?

 

​I think they can't e won't block VPN services because doing do they would block all HTTPS connections

[Kepler_452b 77]

If Netflix can block Vpns, I imagine China can     It's a repressive regime ruling a country without human rights law trying to keep it's citizens ignorant.

[Staff 9761]

If Netflix can block Vpns, I imagine China can     It's a repressive regime ruling a country without human rights law trying to keep it's citizens ignorant.

 

It's very different in this case. Netflix can just allow only IP addresses that are assigned to residential ISPs, and this method is very effective for a centralized server that needs to filter inbound connections.

 

From China, it is not applicable, because any end-service does NOT run on machines connected to residential ISPs. Enforcing the same block would be equivalent to shut down the whole Internet for any service outside (and several inside) China. Not that it's impossible, but the economic consequences would be catastrophic even for the establishment. China faces the opposite problem: block outbound connections to an arbitrary amount of servers, not inbound connections to a single service from an arbitrary amount of clients.

 

This does not mean anyway that we do not expect that China will implement more sophisticated ways to disrupt connections to VPN servers abroad.

 

Kind regards