Do you need a VPN?

Re:Do you need a VPN? by ineedtosleep on Monday October 30, 2017 @08:31PM (#15590233)

I was in China this year and found it surprising that it's as powerful as it is. Consequently, I also found out how powerful not having the entire internet is. The amount of information/sites I wasn't able to access due to it not being accessible at all; or "accessible" but never fully downloadable (i.e. javascript not able to download fully, other assets blocking actual content from being loaded) was staggering.

Coupled with the official cable TV service, which is amusingly abbreviated CCTV[1], and other state-controlled media, it's an eye-opening thing to see (more blatant) information control in action.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Central_Television

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Re:Do you need a VPN? by forapurpose on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @01:12AM (#15591221)

> The amount of information/sites I wasn't able to access due to it not being accessible at all; or "accessible" but never fully downloadable (i.e. javascript not able to download fully, other assets blocking actual content from being loaded) was staggering.

Can you read Chinese? I ask because if not, the experience of people who can might be very different.

I'm completely against the censorship; I just wonder how effectively they implement it.

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Re:Do you need a VPN? by danmaz74 on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @06:20AM (#15592092)

Not OP, but I suppose that people only reading Chinese in China won't notice this much, because most (all?) of what they find is inside the Great Firewall and thus under control (direct or indirect) of the Chinese government. But that's exactly as intended.

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Re:Do you need a VPN? by whooshee on Monday October 30, 2017 @10:00PM (#15590615)

Because GFW (maybe accidentally) blocked quite a few CDNs, that influenced many other 'not-on-list' sites overseas to download their assets properly.

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