Dis you even read the linked section? It says that some VPNs are blocked, but the Wikipedia article itself describes how to use VPN and Tor from China. Not a word about them being legally banned as you initially claimed.
Anyway this is completely off topic, so stop spreading these baseless rumors.
The article says that he is being punished for watching porn, the VPN is not mentioned as illegal. Also it doesnt specify what the actual punishment is, only giving scary worst case punishments. For all we know the court might have decided not to punish him.
No, a man in Changde used a VPN to “override the wall” to visit an overseas website and was administratively punished!
So the person was punished, probably for watching porn, but further down it says:
The police of the Internet Security Brigade of the Tianjin Municipal Public Security Bureau discovered during work that someone had used the software “over the wall” to access overseas networks. The policeman who handled the case immediately launched an investigation and quickly found out that Chen used the “over the wall” software to browse pornography abroad. The illegal facts of the website.
According to the investigation of the police, after the offender Chen bought the “over-wall” software “Shadowrocket” from Wu in February 2019, he downloaded the software to his iPhone and used the software to establish illegal channels on the phone.
even further down:
In order to strengthen the management of the international networking of computer information networks and ensure the healthy development of international computer information exchanges, China has formulated the Interim Regulations of the People’s Republic of China on the Management of International Networking of Computer Information Networks, which stipulates that “computer information networks must be directly connected to the international network. Use the international access channel provided by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications National Public Telecommunications Network. No unit or individual may establish or use other channels for international networking." If the above regulations are violated, the public security agency will order the suspension of networking, give a warning, and can also impose a penalty of less than 15,000 yuan. Fines; where there are illegal gains, the illegal gains shall be confiscated.
Sorry I think there’s a misunderstanding, I’m not @TeaBeast . I didn’t claim it’s illegal to use them, @TeaBeast did. But yes I read the article, and it says they block some VPNs and that Tor is blocked partially. I didn’t say they can’t be used, just that it’s blocked. To be honest though, I expected much more to be banned, I had heard about this ‘Great Firewall’ for years and thought Chinese people have no way of circumvending it, but the article shows that it’s not the case. Still pretty bad since they censor the internet, but what I had heard before was really exaggerated.
Sorry my bad, I didnt pay attention to the usernames. Yes from what my friends told me, its really common for people in China to use VPN, particularly if they want to use blocked sites like facebook or twitter.
No problem. Yeah, the main problem I can think of is when people use a random free VPN and their data gets in the hands of some shady advertising company or something.
According to this Wikipedia article, Tor and some VPN services are blocked using deep packet inspection.
Dis you even read the linked section? It says that some VPNs are blocked, but the Wikipedia article itself describes how to use VPN and Tor from China. Not a word about them being legally banned as you initially claimed.
Anyway this is completely off topic, so stop spreading these baseless rumors.
Interesting question, a quick search suggests that it seems like people are being punished for using VPN.
https://www.scmp.com/abacus/tech/article/3095201/man-punished-using-vpn-scale-chinas-great-firewall-and-watch-porn
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_8476728?hotComm%3Dtrue
The article says that he is being punished for watching porn, the VPN is not mentioned as illegal. Also it doesnt specify what the actual punishment is, only giving scary worst case punishments. For all we know the court might have decided not to punish him.
So the person was punished, probably for watching porn, but further down it says:
even further down:
Sorry I think there’s a misunderstanding, I’m not @TeaBeast . I didn’t claim it’s illegal to use them, @TeaBeast did. But yes I read the article, and it says they block some VPNs and that Tor is blocked partially. I didn’t say they can’t be used, just that it’s blocked. To be honest though, I expected much more to be banned, I had heard about this ‘Great Firewall’ for years and thought Chinese people have no way of circumvending it, but the article shows that it’s not the case. Still pretty bad since they censor the internet, but what I had heard before was really exaggerated.
Sorry my bad, I didnt pay attention to the usernames. Yes from what my friends told me, its really common for people in China to use VPN, particularly if they want to use blocked sites like facebook or twitter.
No problem. Yeah, the main problem I can think of is when people use a random free VPN and their data gets in the hands of some shady advertising company or something.