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Lemmy.ml is supposedly blocked in China (emacs.ch)
submitted 7 months ago by Daz@lemmy.ml to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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Funny if true.

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[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I feel like I should say that a VPN isn't a magic bullet. Even if its configured correctly to totally obfuscate the data and the final endpoint of the traffic it's still blatantly obvious that a VPN is in use. Given that the CCP monitors all of this stuff it wouldn't surprise me to learn that if you run a VPN long or often enough without providing stating why that it'll either end up blocked or you'll end up in trouble.

[–] novibe@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

But using a VPN is not illegal in China… why would you even have to explain why you’re using one?

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] novibe@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Lmao South China Morning Post and Radio Free Asia are literally propaganda mouthpieces for the CIA

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 1 points 7 months ago

Fair enough.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/chinese-man-arrested-after-making-1-6-million-from-selling-vpn-services/

That one details several such cases and includes links to local coverage from Litchi News from one of them.

Then there's this showing that the CCP banned unregistered VPNs in 2017. It's partially why they prosecuted the people in the previous article.

https://www.neowin.net/news/china-will-block-vpn-access-for-individuals-companies-must-register-with-the-government/

If you don't like that then here's The Guardian with a separate incident:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/22/man-in-china-sentenced-to-five-years-jail-for-running-vpn

Seriously, I can find articles like that detailing different incidents in every major mainstream media source. So either all of them are lying to me -or- you are trying to gaslight me.

Guess which one I think is more probable?