{"id":25896,"date":"2011-08-23T11:27:59","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T10:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=25896"},"modified":"2017-07-21T17:19:28","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T16:19:28","slug":"china-online-commerce-site-bans-sale-of-web-filtering-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=25896","title":{"rendered":"China: Online commerce site bans sale of web filtering software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A major <a title=\"Index on Censorship - China\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/china\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chinese<\/a> online commerce site, <a href=\"http:\/\/taobao.com\/\">Taobao.com<\/a>, \u00a0<a title=\"AP - Chinese site bans Web tools used to evade filters \" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5iXfSs2x5dbJS3xemVGgXIgIMpWZA?docId=69c1ba04cc924bc4b1157510779b2584\" target=\"_blank\">has banned<\/a> sales of software used to bypass internet censorship.\u00a0The\u00a0site\u00a0said it took the action on its own and received no official orders. A notice on the site said virtual private networks (VPNs) and Internet protocol proxies &#8212; common tools for evading web filters &#8212; were being used to illegally visit foreign websites. It told merchants using the site to stop selling them and said the accounts of violaters might be cancelled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A major Chinese online commerce site, Taobao.com, \u00a0has banned sales of software used to bypass internet censorship.\u00a0The\u00a0site\u00a0said it took the action on its own and received no official orders. A notice on the site said virtual private networks (VPNs) and Internet protocol proxies &#8212; common tools for evading web filters &#8212; were being used to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[4883,584,585],"tags":[103,7364,64,3683],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25896"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25896"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25908,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25896\/revisions\/25908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}