Urumqi, in China’s Xinjiang region. The area has long been home to experiments in Internet surveillance and censorship.Credit...Goh Chai Hin/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images HONG KONG — The Chinese government is shutting down the mobile service of residents in Xinjiang who use software that lets them circumvent Internet filters, escalating an already aggressive electronic surveillance strategy
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