[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?