Joining Apple, Amazon’s China Cloud Service Bows to Censors<br />A Chinese company that operates Amazon’s cloud-computing and online services business there said on Tuesday<br />that it told local customers to cease using any software that would allow Chinese to circumvent the country’s extensive system of internet blocks.<br />The company, called Beijing Sinnet Technology and operator of the American company’s Amazon Web Services<br />operations in China, sent one round of emails to customers on Friday and another on Monday.<br />SHANGHAI — Days after Apple yanked anti-censorship tools off its app store in China, another major American<br />technology company is moving to implement the country’s tough restrictions on online content.<br />“We the operators also check routinely if any of our users use these softwares or store illegal content.”<br />Ms. Wang said the letter was sent according to recent guidance from China’s Ministry of Public Security and the country’s telecom regulator.<br />Taken together, the recent moves by Apple and Amazon show how Beijing is increasingly forcing America’s<br />biggest tech companies to play by Chinese rules if they want to maintain access to the market.<br />New rules posted to government websites in recent days said Communist Party members can be punished for viewing illegal sites and<br />that they must register all foreign or local social media accounts
