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Do people in the West have more rights than Chinese people?

In fact, China does not ban VPN tools.
Many Chinese people can access youtube, facebook and any website if they want to.
China’s government has told telecommunications carriers to block individuals’ access to virtual private networks by Feb. 1, people familiar with the matter said, thereby shutting a major window to the global internet.

Beijing has ordered state-run telecommunications firms, which include China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom, to bar people from using VPNs, services that skirt censorship restrictions by routing web traffic abroad, the people said, asking not to be identified talking about private government directives.

The clampdown will shutter one of the main ways in which people both local and foreign still manage to access the global, unfiltered web on a daily basis. China has one of the world’s most restrictive internet regimes, tightly policed by a coterie of government regulators intent on suppressing dissent to preserve social stability. In keeping with President Xi Jinping’s “cyber sovereignty” campaign, the government now appears to be cracking down on loopholes around the Great Firewall, a system that blocks information sources from Twitter and Facebook to news websites such as the New York Times and others.

While VPNs are widely used by businesses and individuals to view banned websites, the technology operates in a legal gray area. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology pledged in January to step up enforcement against unauthorized VPNs, and warned corporations to confine such services to internal use. At least one popular network operator said it had run afoul of the authorities: GreenVPN notified users it would halt service from July 1 after “receiving a notice from regulatory departments.” It didn’t elaborate on the notice.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...der-carriers-to-bar-personal-vpns-by-february

Its pretty hard to block VPNs nowadays and especially any blanket ban blocking foreign IPs could disrupt a lot of businesses and education institutes. If it was easy I guess China would have done it completely.
 
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A few months ago, the Vietnamese government banned citizens from accessing adult websites. As a Vietnamese, I don't see any problem when the FPT service provider bans access to sensitive websites. Because I can really use the Opera browser to access xvideo and pornhub. And no Vietnamese people feel free to be threatened. The West has exaggerated the so-called "human rights" and "freedom" when it comes to censoring information

If you use a VPN, the government will not stop you
But if you advertise the VPN to many others, you will face penalties.
 
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So many countries enjoy this so called of freedom and speech by just endlessly talking without and actions while China uses the time quietly to develp and prosper.

If time means patiently sitting on your hands for thousands of years waiting for the West to supply you with the tech and knowledge to get you out of perpetually being a peasant farming society...then yes.
 
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I suspect most Chinese don't understand the concept of "right". Same may be true for the rest of the world.

"Right" is just one side of a coin. The other side is "others' responsibility". One cannot exist without the other. One's right is always others' responsibility. Right doesn't come into existence out of thin air. If others are willing to take on such responsibility, your right is fulfilled. If others aren't, your right doesn't exist.

Therefore, the question asked in the title is just silly. A better question is whether people in the west are more willing to take the responsibility that comes out of their claim on rights, than Chinese people.
 
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