China on Monday passed new cybersecurity legislation aimed at tightening speech online, a move that met with prompt criticism from international watchdog groups.
The measure, passed by the National People’s Congress Standing Committee, makes it a crime to undermine the country’s “national honor” or engage in conduct that “disturbs economic or social order,” including “the socialist system,” and prohibits users from employing anonymizing software such as Tor to mask their identity online.
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