A Chinese man has been fined for accessing foreign websites in a rare punitive measure against an individual user, highlighting the government’s tightening of internet freedoms.
Zhu Yunfeng was fined Rmb1,000 ($145), roughly a fifth of the average monthly wage in his city of Shaoguan in Guangdong province, according to a state media report over the weekend.
His case comes as Chinese citizens as well as foreign businesses are being threatened by a wave of crackdowns on virtual private networks (VPNs) , which are used to bypass Beijing’s internet controls in order to access banned websites, such as Google and Twitter.
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