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By Tom Lowenthal/CPJ Staff Technologist
In a move unlikely to surprise those who access the Internet from mainland China, the country's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology recently blocked several popular tools used to bypass the "Great Firewall" national Internet censorship system. Citing the need to protect "cyberspace sovereignty" and to "maintain cyber security and steady operation," the Ministry changed firewall rules to block three increasingly popular commercial virtual private network (VPN) services.
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February 7, 2015
Feb 7 @ 2:30 pm at the Newseum in Washington D.C.
Joel Simon, executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, talks about his new book, "The New Censorship: Inside the Global Battle for Media Freedom."
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