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Re:VPN crackdown ‘unthinkable’ trial by firewall for China’s... by kccqzy on Sunday July 23, 2017 @07:50PM (#14834990)
I have tried that and doing a whois on my public IP revealed that it belongs to the original ISP, not whatever local ISP I was using. Even visiting Google shows the Google page of the original country. I guess they just have agreements to tunnel traffic in a way that circumvents the Great Firewall.

But politically it is much easier to understand. The only people who are likely doing this are tourists, and the government certainly doesn't want to hurt tourism.

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Re:VPN crackdown ‘unthinkable’ trial by firewall for China’s... by sigmar on Sunday July 23, 2017 @08:33PM (#14835162)
>a whois on my public IP revealed that it belongs to the original ISP, not whatever local ISP I was using

did you do other checks to see if your traffic was being censored? a whois of your public ip says nothing about whether your traffic has been manipulated.

> Even visiting Google shows the Google page of the original country. I guess they just have agreements to tunnel traffic in a way that circumvents the Great Firewall.

google serves pages depending on your public ip

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Re:VPN crackdown ‘unthinkable’ trial by firewall for China’s... by kccqzy on Sunday July 23, 2017 @11:28PM (#14835690)
The Great Firewall doesn't in general modify traffic. It either allows traffic to pass though, or blocks it (TCP RST, rate limiting, etc). I was able to visit normally blocked sites like Google at full speed of a typical cellular connection.
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