Man punished for using a VPN to scale China’s Great Firewall and watch p0rn

[OIO]

Is watching p0rn illegal in China?

No, the pulish is illegal.

 

[Bengal71]

No, the pulish is illegal.

So there is not Chinese made ****?

 

[Beast]

So there is not Chinese made ****?

In theory there is but artistic and not those brainless cosplay ****.

There are few Chinese award winning movie with nudity and sex but they are done in a tasteful way.

 

[GumNaam]

A man in southern China received administrative punishment after he bypassed the country’s strict internet censorship system to watch p0rn, state media reported on Wednesday.

The man, surnamed Chen, was apprehended by the local police in the city of Jinshi, located in Hunan province. The police said Chen was using an app called Shadowrocket, which allows users to connect to proxy servers using the censorship circumvention tool Shadowsocks, among other protocols.

Virtual private networks (VPNs) are the most common tools used in China to hop the country’s Great Firewall that blocks access to foreign websites and apps. Facebook, Google and several of the world’s top news sites are all blocked in the country. But Chinese authorities introduced new regulations in 2017 that require VPN providers to officially register with the state, which led Apple to purge VPN apps from its iOS App Store in China.

Some circumvention techniques are more advanced – like Shadowsocks. While often referred to as a VPN, Shadowsocks is technically a disguised SOCKS5 proxy specifically designed to get around the Great Firewall.

While VPNs and Shadowsocks encrypt internet traffic, authorities suggested they were still able to figure out what Chen was browsing. Police said Chen’s main crime was accessing pornographic websites, according to the media report, which cites a now-deleted WeChat post from the city’s public security bureau.

Police didn’t say how they discovered Chen’s online activities. But encryption isn’t necessarily enough to protect users depending on where that data is going. Shadowrocket doesn’t provide any servers itself, just the software used to connect to them.

Authorities didn’t say what Chen’s punishment was, but the Jinshi police hinted at what it could be. They said that people using their own channels to access international networks could be fined up to 15,000 yuan (US$2,142). Those that sell the service could even face prison time.

Some people have already been arrested for selling VPN services in China. A man was arrested for it in 2017, where he was sentenced to five and a half years in prison and fined US$76,000. Police said another man, arrested earlier this year, made US$1.6 million from selling VPNs since 2016.

https://www.scmp.com/abacus/tech/ar...pn-scale-chinas-great-firewall-and-watch-p0rn

Edited the word and link because the word is censored.

**** is extremely illegal in China...yet another reason why I love China. I wish Pakistan would install a similar firewall.

 

[SuperStar20]

**** is extremely illegal in China...yet another reason why I love China. I wish Pakistan would install a similar firewall.

Well, you live in America and want strict rules for pakistan. I have seen this is kind of hypocrisy from pakistani living abroad. Do you watch **** or not?

 

[8888888888888]

They will always be ways around this.

 

[52051]

It seems that some small town police have too much time in their hands, and most likely a female judge at work

 

[GumNaam]

Well, you live in America and want strict rules for pakistan. I have seen this is kind of hypocrisy from pakistani living abroad. Do you watch **** or not?

no I do not. anyone who follows me on Twitter will know that I am very much a part of the movement here in the u.s. that is trying to outlaw p0rn. and since when did living in the u.s. & hating p0rn become "hypocrisy"? only a deranged indian could've made the asinine claim.

 

[Rajputana_]

Well aint this funny.

The ccp decides what you watch, be careful out there bots.

 

[Yaseen1]

good move by china

 

[GumNaam]

Well aint this funny.

The ccp decides what you watch, be careful out there bots.

a society should not have to suffer the perversions of p0rn addicts!

 

[Rajputana_]

a society should not have to suffer the perversions of p0rn addicts!

Yeah btw this is a free society, it can decide what is perversion or not.

This aint ccp or saudi here.

 

[ILC]

I've seen many Chinese hoes appeared on Twitter recently, and post nude photos and wants money for it. Can't believe someone is buying these photos.(the same in the west) Some people are super simps and cucks.

 

[GumNaam]

Yeah btw this is a free society, it can decide what is perversion or not.

This aint ccp or saudi here.

yes I've seen the effects of a "free" society that decides having a woman raped in broad daylight at a bus stop is perfectly normal & not perverted at all aka india! thanks but no thanks.

 

[Rajputana_]

yes I've seen the effects of a "free" society that decides having a woman raped in broad daylight at a bus stop is perfectly normal & not perverted at all aka india! thanks but no thanks.

Yet you have no shame enjoying the fruits of this free shameless society, hypocrisy much?