‘It’s becoming more difficult finding stable VPNs’ – China increases crackdown on VPN usage

• New independent research suggests China is increasing its crackdown on VPN use
• One censorship expert suggested that a new censorship effort began in April
• Outbound web traffic remains incredibly low in China

New independent research and reports from mainland China suggest that the Chinese government is increasing its suppression of VPN use.

Research from the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPI) focused on the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in northwestern China estimates that, at most, 4% of all outbound internet traffic was via VPN to a banned website in an average week.

The report was compiled over a period of months from more than 100,000 documents sourced from the Chinese company Geedge Networks.

China is well known for its internet censorship policies, and many major Western websites are banned or very hard to access through officially sanctioned networks.

The GPPI research also notes that the XUAR may be something of...

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