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Chinese academia use VPNs all the time to access foreign sites. I doubt this is effective to deter applications coming from China. It's probably just a page a
by dudisubekti 2y ago
Chinese academia use VPNs all the time to access foreign sites.
I doubt this is effective to deter applications coming from China.
It's probably just a page admin trying to be an activist at best, or being racist at worst.
- numpad0 2y agoIt's not even activism, just a common snakeoil DDoS-away. Not to say it's okay but not rare.
- dudisubekti 2y agoThis is Tokyo U though, one of the best university in Japan. If they're really having a DDOS/spam problems, I don't think it's difficult for them to hire competent IT people to mitigate them (Cloudflare, captcha, AI spam detector, etc)