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Video material generated usingAIwill also be banned.

Despite being a Chinese-developed software, thepopular video-sharing app TikTokis banned in China.

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Another new entry on the blacklist is AI-powered videos.

The watchdog plans to ban short videos that manipulate content and illegally use other people’s voices or faces.

In July, Chinaproposed a set of guidelinesfor generative AI software and large language models to minimize their risks.

Top10VPN’s chart showing the most censorship methods used among countries that block access to VPN websites most frequently

Failure refers to instances where the Open Observatory for Network Interference (OONI) was unable to automatically determine the cause of interference.

China topped the list as the biggest offender worldwide forVPN censorshipbetween January and May this year.

This is why you should take care when picking a VPN provider.

Services implementingobfuscation technology, for example, are less vulnerable to such attacks.

We also suggest downloading several apps to hop from one to another in case these get blocked.

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