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Pre-Congress Pressure Mounts on Tech Firms, Users

At this year’s Two Sessions legislative and political advisory meetings in Beijing in February, delegate Luo Fuhe issued a striking public call for relaxation of China’s notoriously tight internet controls. Instead, 2017 has seen only further constriction, including the passage of a new cybersecurity law, a sustained crackdown on the VPNs used to circumvent controls, an expansion of real name registration requirements, and the recent introduction of rules