[chidg]

Hi, not well educated on the details of VPNs and network security so this may be a basic question, but - VPNs are used regularly by corporates to enable secure intranet access to people offsite, etc - surely completely blocking VPNs or detecting and punishing VPN users is severely detrimental to business and not something countries would want to do carte blanche? How does this work?

[Crestwave]

It's possible that they're only blocking the VPNs hosted outside of the country (and thus bypassing censorship).

Of course, that would still impact international remote workers, but it's probably niche enough for the government to offload it as their problem.