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Mobile Data Cut for VPN, WhatsApp Users in Xinjiang

The New York Times’ Paul Mozur reports that mobile Internet users in Xinjiang have had their connections blocked, and been told to contact local police for reactivation. The measures follow calls for intensified counterterrorism after this month’s deadly attacks in Paris, but are also consistent with China’s broader efforts to control Internet use. Compared with the ten-month blackout that followed riots in the region’s capital in 2009, the