[qingdao99]

You will casually breach the GFW if the VPN you pay for is not blocked yet.

[hker]

Beware when using VPN to breach the GFW. Recently a Chinese netizen had to pay over 1 million yuan (>145K USD) for using VPN [1][2]. Before this incident, only VPN service sellers were prosecuted [3]. Beware when doing this casually.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37787205 "Chinese Netizen Fined Over 1 Million Yuan for Using VPN"

[2]: https://here.news/post/93c46bbd-ea0d-48e2-bba6-135e58887f81/... "Chinese Netizen Fined Over 1 Million Yuan for Using VPN"

[3]: https://www.zdnet.com/article/chinese-man-arrested-after-mak... "Chinese man arrested after making $1.6 million from selling VPN services"

[bdd8f1df777b]

A foreigner won’t be treated in the same way. The Chinese government is cruel to its own people but quite friendly to outsiders.