Hong Kong ISP Association’s Statement on Selective Blocking of Internet Services

Re:Hong Kong ISP Association’s Statement on Selective Blocki... by pas on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @08:07PM (#20825394)

Yeah, at this point probably any plan start with getting a plane ticket and getting out of there if you really want to be prepared. :/

In my experience nothing really works, because the Chinese firewall is more like a whitelist than what it used to be.

OpenVPN over WebSocket proxy works, sometimes. Some commercial VPNs work up to a point, but expect very low bandwidth and frequent annoying disconnects.

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Re:Hong Kong ISP Association’s Statement on Selective Blocki... by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @08:17PM (#20825455)

You can get a direct line in the mainland from China telecom unfiltered by the firewall if you are a big enough company (foreign or otherwise). It is about the only reliable way of jumping the wall.

A lot of hotels in GZ have internet through HK for some odd reason I can’t fathom, it was nice browsing Facebook in my hotel room without a VPN.

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Re:Hong Kong ISP Association’s Statement on Selective Blocki... by pas on Thursday August 29, 2019 @04:43AM (#20827821)

Sure, you can, but that's not censorship resistant either, after all they know who you are.

Plus even just to get a SIM card you need passport/id. So to be able to speak freely some kind of secure anonymization layer is needed.

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