[yorwba]

> HN is not blocked by the great firewall

Your information is 16 days out of date: https://en.greatfire.org/news.ycombinator.com There's now a partial block where it can be accessed from some locations and not from others.

That's not necessarily going to prevent "pro-China" views from appearing. People who circumvent the Great Firewall e.g. to follow celebrities on Instagram may not like the censorship, but could be on the same page with the government on other issues.

[xster]

Semi-tangential, but many Chinese tech companies just have a perma-VPN company wide and use GSuite and Google search by default. And Hacker News is a tech-leading forum (though it's not that big of a thing in China AFAIK).

[wannaduo]

Actually，I work for one of the most well known Chinese Internet companies. Our company’s VPN is blocked by HN

[stef25]

The VPN blocks HN, not the other way round

[xster]

Did you mean that HN isn't accessible through VPN? i.e. it only tunnels domains selectively?

[dang]

HN doesn't block VPNs. What are you observing that leads you to say that?

[yorwba]

Don't you ban IP addresses in some cases? https://hn.algolia.com/?query=by:dang%20IP%20banned&sort=byD... suggests you do. That could result in effectively banning a VPN.

[dang]

We do, but not usually heavily used ones, and the VPNs we're aware of use lots of IPs.

[solipsism]

Always been curious -- why is this allowed by the Chinese government? If people feel comfortable using such a VPN, they must have some reasonable belief that the Chinese government doesn't care that much about it, right?