Anti-censorship tools are quietly disappearing into thin air in China

Anti-censorship tools are quietly disappearing into thin air in China Clash, the popular proxy client, is the latest victim in the country’s crackdown on the open internet. China — the biggest internet market globally with more than 1 billion users — is no stranger to online censorship. For years, authorities in the country have built out a series of techno-policy restraints, commonly referred to as The Great Firewall, to restrict open access to the internet. But those restrictions have also given rise to a creative industry: circumvention tools used by tens of millions of people to get around the wall…