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by azekai 1589 days ago
This claim was recently made by one of the Chinese Olympians, but it is not true. VPNs were made illegal in 2017, and since 2021 China has been clamping down hard on their own citizens using VPNs to bypass the great firewall, while looking the other way for foreign nationals. The CCP does not send everyone to jail who uses a VPN, but they have the authority to do so if they see fit.
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[citation needed]. Every source I've seen says the same: nobody cares, VPNs are "illegal" same way weed is illegal in UK.
Yup - users don’t have a problem, but somebody making money from it might.