China’s Great Firewall Ramps Up Fight Against Anti-Censorship Tools

Users of the paid VPN service Astrill were greeted with an error message over the weekend, stating that “increases censorship” were blocking the service’s protocols, and that the company was working on an updated version of the app to get around the restriction.

Visitors use a laptop computer at a display booth as a security guard stands nearby at the Global Mobile Internet Conference in Beijing April 29, 2015. AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein

In the wake of the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, China has launched a new wave of online censorship, cracking down on a popular firewall-circumvention service.

Users of the paid Virtual Private Network (VPN) service Astrill were greeted with an error message over the weekend, stating that “increases censorship” were blocking the service’s protocols, and that the company was working on an updated version of the app to get around the restriction.

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