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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?
(Score: 3, Funny) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday September 19 2017, @04:18PM (4 children)
Fucked up world we live in where I end up agreeing with you on just about anything. Oh well...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 19 2017, @04:41PM (1 child)
Naw it is just that China is the great evil and we must use that caricature to promote "the land of the free". I still agree with most of the statements, I just doubt their authenticity. At the very least the statements are profoundly naive and quite hypocritical given his statements in the past. As long as the Great Evils are coming from private corporations it is OK because it is a "choice" to use whatever Great Evil you need. He just sidesteps the fact that these giants are able to purchase their power and are intertwined with the gov. But of course the blame only goes to the gov, unless its an evil west coast tech company. #hypocrisy #grudgingapproval
If he is a real person he needs to broaden his perspective so he can step outside the partisan divide. Corrupted power is non-partisan as the DNC and GOP have made painfully clear.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday September 19 2017, @11:04PM
That sounds just as authentic a criticism as an American Chinese meal.
(Score: 5, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday September 19 2017, @05:58PM (1 child)
The only one I hear advocating internet censorship is our Republican President, not exactly a Progressive.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday September 19 2017, @08:29PM
Loser terrorists must be dealt with in a much tougher manner. The internet is their main recruitment tool which we must cut off and use better! We're losing a lot of people because of the internet and we have to do something. We have to go see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what's happening. We have to talk to them, maybe in certain areas closing that internet up in some way. Somebody will say, "oh, freedom of speech, freedom of speech." These are foolish people. We've got to maybe do something with the internet because they are recruiting by the thousands, they are leaving our country and then when they come back, we take them back. We've got to close our borders to people who have gone on the internet and become terrorists. Who go on the internet, become terrorists, leave, and come back with bad electronics. Bringing bad electronics on a plane, very big danger. I warned Sergey. Warned the Russian foreign minister about it. But I never mentioned the word or the name Israel. Never mentioned Israel in that conversation. They’re all saying I did, that's fake news. Another story wrong. Never mentioned the word Israel. 🇺🇸