When Chinese students were given the uncensored internet

Re:When Chinese students were given the uncensored internet by vorpalhex on Thursday June 20, 2019 @01:08PM (#20234915)

So by forcing the use of illegal vpns, you can always be arrested. Or fired for not doing your job.

It's not that everything is terrible in China, it's that the Chinese government is an oppressive regime with severe totalitarian bent. Those oppressive regimes which least interfere in the everyday are the most likely to continue existing - we've known this since ancient times.

But censorship, ethnic camps, totalitarian power and mass surveillance do a reppressive regime make.

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Re:When Chinese students were given the uncensored internet by admk on Thursday June 20, 2019 @01:17PM (#20234996)

There are a few cases when it comes to arrests of VPN service owners, but zero incidents that I know of of VPN user being arrested. This is simply because the former breaks the law and the latter doesn't.

Censorship is no secret, totalitarian power is hard to define, but ethnic camps and mass surveillance may or may not exist depending on the existance of direct evidence.

Edit: Evidence is universal, and I suppose we can all agree that it is not dependent on me.

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Re:When Chinese students were given the uncensored internet by vorpalhex on Thursday June 20, 2019 @02:22PM (#20235704)

There is no country I am aware of, including China, which denies the existence of the camps. China contends that they are voluntary "educational centers" that just happen to only contain Muslim Chinese who aren't allowed to leave and spend their days singing praises to Jinping.

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Re:When Chinese students were given the uncensored internet by malaxii on Thursday June 20, 2019 @01:28PM (#20235109)

The existence of the camps is independent of whether you have evidence of them or not.

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