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bobobob420 | 2 years ago

Many people use vpn openly in china for business and gaming. Its sort of allowed. Source : my Chinese mates

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ehhthing|2 years ago

UU Booster, which is the service I currently use for gaming is operated by NetEase, which is a giant in the Chinese online gaming space. It's fully legal, no issues whatsoever.

Also you can get roaming SIM cards or even eSIMs, which connect to APNs overseas.

You can also get Alibaba Cloud private networking connection between a region inside of China and a region outside. They use private lines so there's no GFW involved. My understanding is that you need an international real name verified account to do this, but after that you basically have an uncensored line that's also much more stable than connections that have to go through the GFW. I know of a US company that uses this to connect their Chinese workers to their central office, and again it's fully legal once you get an ICP license.

samstave|2 years ago

This is not a snarky comment: It wouldnt be surprising if VPN use will be tied to a social credit score, if not already?

hattmall|2 years ago

Yeah maybe, but people give the CCP way more credit than is due. They are a much more hands on and brutalist group than technocratic overlords. Many of their initiatives sound powerful and wizardly but most are implemented poorly if at all. At the end of the day they are almost entirely reliant on a monopolistic hierarchy of physical violence and in person observations.