China seems to change his tune in how it recognizes the great firewall. In recent months, several events indicate that China moves to publicly legalized large firewall - both by their efforts to promote Internet sovereignty and attempts to stop the use of proxies
Internet sovereignty
As the New York Times described the Chinese government has worked hard to adopt a concept of "Internet sovereignty" they believe. they promoted this concept at a UN meeting in December, which was created 'to define the policies and frameworks of how the Internet is governed in the future. "At the meeting of China tried to influence and pushed hard for the word "multilateral" to be included in the frames (which means that each state or country, can make rules for Internet use):
"China has been very active in the negotiations to push for more state control over the way people get online and who has access to data" and "the inclusion of the word has largely been conducted China, which has worked to enshrine the state control over the Internet in the document ".
most other countries opposed to this terminology and it was left out of the final document, but China held its own global Internet conference shortly after the course which they promoted the concept to new Internet sovereignty.
circumvention tools
It was also recently reported that China is making efforts to block "circumvention tools" with "using cloud providers. " Chinese regulators require these intermediaries, including cloud storage providers to eliminate such circumvention tools (IE proxies, VPN) that are hosted on their servers. This effort includes an electronic message sent to Microsoft Azure users:
"In response to the recent pressure from the Chinese regulatory authorities, Microsoft Azure China, which provides cloud storage to carry CDNs, issued a letter to its customers recommending that they remove all circumvention services, proxy and VPN illegal hosted on their server. "
Azure is a target because many virtual private servers (wall escape proxies) are placed on Azure.
Why it is important
China seems to work for publicly justify the Great Firewall - this is a big deal. By pushing so hard for the sovereignty of the Internet, they are not only admitting the Great Firewall exists, but also moving towards legalization. E-mail to Microsoft Azure users further illustrated this, as the term "illegal on the wall" site was used. Employing this language and bringing these to light circumvention tools also shows that the Chinese government attempts to regulate and legalize great firewall.
This is a big change for China, which has even denied the existence of censorship and the great firewall. If China legalizes the great firewall, they legalize extreme Internet censorship, which is a threat to freedom of the Internet to users in the country. more about censorship in China here.
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