[FaultBit]

A lot of people actually use VPNs in China (since 2010 even), and some of them call it "加速器" which basically means "booster" (for your internet). Some use it for lower latencies when playing foreign games. The issue is that VPN connections get easily blocked. We aren't really worried about legal issues.

Except for that one time when police (of a certain district, not everywhere in China) knocked on people's doors to inspect their phones for VPNs during the "white paper protest" I believe.

[seanmcdirmid]

Surely Xinjiang has stricter rules and more aggressive enforcement than the other provinces/regions? They always put a hardliner in as party head.

[mushbino]

Probably, but there's a real history of many terrorist attacks in China being planned online. It's why Facebook is blocked. Look at what the US did to Muslims after 9/11

[LorenPechtel]

This. I don't worry about generating illicit traffic in China--but there's no way I'm going to Xinjiang. If I had to go there I would stay off the internet entirely.

[mushbino]

Sure, but you're ruining the yellow peril narrative we need for our cold war with China.