A mysterious internet outage in China is provoking speculation that its restrictive communist government is running tests of its "internet kill switch," which would shut down web access for "emergencies." It seems like a drastic conclusion to reach, but apparently, the country's biggest internet providers report no technical issues on their end. They simply can't explain the outage.
According to Tech in Asia, VPNs that had previously allowed Internet users to get around the Great Firewall were down, but that smaller VPN providers seemed to be unscathed. This could suggest a deliberate targeting of...










Did China Use its Internet Kill Switch?