China Cuts Mobile Service of Xinjiang Residents Evading Internet Filters
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/24/business/international/china-cuts-mobile-service-of-xinjiang-residents-evading-internet-filters.html
The person said that when she called the police, she was
told that the service suspensions were aimed at people who had
not linked their identification to their account; used virtual
private networks, or V.P.N.s, to evade China's system of
Internet filters, known as the Great Firewall; or downloaded
foreign messaging software, like WhatsApp or Telegram. With
debates continuing in Europe and the United States about how
heavily to encrypt communications sent through smartphone
messaging applications that could mask terrorist plots from law
enforcement, the move in China underlines Beijing's
determination to control and monitor information online. The
debate in the West also has influence in China, said Nicholas
Bequelin, the East Asia director for Amnesty International in
Hong Kong. "With the West generally going backward in terms of
protecting privacy and freedom of expression, China is comforted
in its longstanding position that it is the arbiter of what can
be said or not," he said.
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