China Tells Carriers to Block Access to Personal VPNs by February

Re:China Tells Carriers to Block Access to Personal VPNs by ... by gcb0 on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @07:35AM (#14743258)

why would people be checking a news site that was previously blocked? do you go everyday "oh, let me try cnn.com... oh, still blocked. let's try tomorrow?"

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Re:China Tells Carriers to Block Access to Personal VPNs by ... by imron on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @11:46AM (#14745131)

Well, first of all, it's not every day that a news event on the scale of 9/11 happens.

As for how I discovered they were unblocked, I got a phone call from my Mum early in the morning after the attack (the attack happened during the Chinese night time) and went in to the office (which had the only available internet access), and one of my colleagues told me that the bbc and nytimes were no longer blocked.

Not sure how he found out they were unblocked, but he'd been there most of the night.

Then once you know one is unblocked you try them all :-)

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Re:China Tells Carriers to Block Access to Personal VPNs by ... by Belphemur on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @07:50AM (#14743336)

I guess it's for the tourist that where in China when it happened.

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Re:China Tells Carriers to Block Access to Personal VPNs by ... by gpvos on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @07:52AM (#14743344)

You might follow a link from somewhere?

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