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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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