China has begun cracking down on one of the few avenues its citizens and foreigners have to accessing the full internet, the People’s Daily Newspaper in Beijing reported.

China announced it is “upgrading” its internet censorship to disrupt VPN services inside the nation of 1.3 billion people, the paper said.

The Great Firewall of China has long blocked those within the country from reaching popular international sites such as Google, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.

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