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Good luck. Even China isn't able to fully crack down on VPNs or Tor.
China doesn't want to
Just like the US gov not catching drug lords when they do stupid stuff
Just them trying hurts a ton tho.
it kinda confuses me that china couldn't restrict VPN and Tor if it wanted to. i rather suspect they turn a blind eye, for some reason.
IIRC it's mainly that many corporations depend on VPNs for security - blanket banning would make it pretty hard for multinationals to work in china
Remote work/administration too. I work on servers one of which is behind the chinese firewall, via ssh. ssh can carry socks natively, I could build a crude throttled but working vpn in seconds.
China is also slowing transfers in general, I guess to push domestic providers and servers. Even with that if they don't want to sever all economic and scientific connections it will remain possible, though cumbersome to most.
until AI replaces the scientists
lmao
There are too many ways around it to viably block VPNs and Tor. Both offer bridge services that don't look like VPNs and can come from different places.
They don't turn a blind eye. It's just that the VPN's that work through China's firewall do so over ports that the entire internet uses, like 443 (https). They could filter everything, but it'd be a loooot more resource intensive to filter all internet traffic by destination/content instead of only doing that with extra ports that extra services like VPNs normally use.
... and as others have pointed out, there ARE valid reasons to allow some VPNs. Forcing them to jump through hoops to function is no skin off their back, while properly filtering all traffic would be disasterous for them beyond the expense.