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Weekly Censorship Digest W17: Shaanxi Telecom Ban, Russian Bank Collapse, Bitchat Delisted
This week's top internet censorship stories in one place: Shaanxi Telecom fully bans overseas traffic in China's first provincial-level internet cutoff order. Russia's VPN crackdown crashes bank payment systems, drawing major Bloomberg coverage. Bitchat pulled from the App Store as encrypted messaging loses another foothold. Pre-May Day tightening warnings intensify. VPN detection patent enters substantive review.