• Ghostalmedia
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    191 month ago

    Fun fact, VPNs are regulated by the state in China

      • @[email protected]
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        51 month ago

        Regulated doesn’t mean they control all VPNs, it means they usually have laws requiring any use of VPN to be licensed, and usually is allowed for businesses rather than individuals. They also block via their firewall many providers. Of course, you could always use one illegally as long as traffic isn’t blocked. Just don’t get caught.

      • Ghostalmedia
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        31 month ago

        Sure it is. But it means that they can tell the VPNs to block the same stuff that everyone else is told to block.

        • @[email protected]
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          01 month ago

          “the VPNs” is not a thing when literally anyone’s connection can be a VPN for someone else and nobody else would know

    • TwinTusks
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      71 month ago

      Internet itself is regulated by the nation state.

    • @[email protected]
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      41 month ago

      Same in Russia. I worked with a banking company that had a Russia office, and the company had to get government approval for the BOVPNs that were used.

      • Ghostalmedia
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        81 month ago

        Hong Kong is the cooler Daniel

      • Ghostalmedia
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        21 month ago

        Security and testing localization will be big use cases. But privacy and or using banned apps, no so much. They don’t call it the Great Firewall for nothing. ISPs, VPNs, etc.

        If you want to use western social media , it’s not as simple as jumping into a VPN.