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China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall

posted by martyb on Tuesday September 19 2017, @11:28AM   Printer-friendly
from the what-about-the-ones-you-did-NOT-catch? dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Chinese authorities have detained a software developer for selling computer services that allow internet users to evade China's "Great Firewall," which blocks access to thousands of websites, from Facebook to Twitter to some news outlets, a media report said Monday.

The software developer, who is from the coastal province of Jiangsu, near Shanghai, was arrested in late August and held for three days for building a small business to sell virtual private networks, the Global Times newspaper reported, citing the official Xinhua news agency. VPNs create encrypted links between computers and allow Chinese web users to see blocked sites by hiding the address from government filters.

Subscribers paid 10 yuan, or about $1.50, for one month of the developer's service. Authorities also seized the developer's earnings, which totaled 1,080 yuan, or about $165.

Some internet businessmen have faced far harsher punishments: Earlier this year, a 26-year-old entrepreneur who sold VPN services in Dongguan, near Hong Kong, was sentenced to nine months in prison.

How far away from having this happen in the West are we, really?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 19 2017, @03:25PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 19 2017, @03:25PM (#570215)

    To paraphrase you, fustakrakich, "what is the state made of, if not people? [soylentnews.org]" Didn't you say that the Chinese people have the government they deserve?

    How can you possibly object to an evil done by a government against its people when just prior you memed support for an evil done by a government against its people? Do you have any solid principles to operate from beyond just trying to spout short text snippets you think will be popular within the confines of a single article, hoping that while you willingly attach your name to each increasingly contradictory comment, that no one will notice how schizophrenic your writings as a whole are?

    Beep, boop.

  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 19 2017, @07:12PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 19 2017, @07:12PM (#570309)

    Quiet! You clattering contraption!

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 19 2017, @07:49PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 19 2017, @07:49PM (#570322)

      Quiet! You clattering contraption!

      Are you unaware about what is said about doing the same thing over and over again while expecting different results? It's insanity. Are you insane?