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by richardknop 3069 days ago
> the Great Firewall is trivial to circumvent with the right VPN subscription.

Not true. The Chinese government is cracking down on VPN providers and you can go to jail for 5 years and have to pay very high fees for running a VPN service.

And the Great Firewall is becoming more clever, they are probably using some learning algorithms as often you buy a VPN subscription which works great but it usually gets shut down in couple of weeks or months at the most.

In order to circumvent the firewall you will need to keep switching VPNs a lot and even then it's quite flaky.
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netheril96 3069 days ago
> you can go to jail for 5 years and have to pay very high fees for running a VPN service.

To clarity this, only VPN providers within China mainland is subject to this. VPN users are safe, for now.

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chillee 3069 days ago
I suspect there's some outsider effect happening here (basically, you're not using the right VPN providers).

Plenty of tech companies use a companywide VPN for a variety of reasons.

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