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  • Anythingbutred@latte.isnot.coffee
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    1 year ago

    Well as of now we have never heard of someone being in trouble because of Reddit posts. So either they know and don’t care or they just don’t know.

    • derived_allegory@beehaw.org
      0·
      1 year ago

      I think they might know, at least they can if they wanted to. Pinning down a reddit post from ISP data is not that hard: reddit don’t put post id in query string, but in the URL, which is unencrypted. With the created time of a post, the added payment link from a VPN, I think they can kind of pin down the author of a post if they really wanted to.

      But I think most dissenters are not that much of a concern for the CCP, and it would cost a lot of resources to arrest most of them. Especially given there are many low-hanging fruits on Weibo, I don’t think they want to spend the effort to silence such a minority that cannot even be heard by most Chinese.

      Turns out URL is also encrypted except the base domain (see comment). So it is unlikely they can figure out.