[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.