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He now bypasses the firewall with his university’s VPN system. Since researchers could still access legal VPNs through work, he did not think the restrictions w
by xwvvvvwx 9y ago
He now bypasses the firewall with his university’s VPN system. Since researchers could still access legal VPNs through work, he did not think the restrictions were harmful to China’s academia – “at least for now”.
Maybe I'm reading it wrong, but it sounds like this won't affect academics.
What seems more interesting is that China is apparently creating a two tier system for access to information.
- greglindahl 9y agoPeople have been commenting for years that westerner-oriented hotels appear to have less filtering than other places in China.
- bonzini 9y agoNot just hotels, it's common for businesses to be able to access Google (though not necessarily Facebook, Twitter, etc.). Interestingly, in one such westerner-oriented hotel it was pretty much impossible to use other (TCP-based) VPNs, presumably because they were already doing some kind of tunneling to Hong Kong and three layers of congestion control were too much...
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoThat seems to only be true in southern Chinese cities. You ain't gonna get around the gfw even in a five star western branded Beijing hotel.