China is making anti-censorship illegal

China has released Cybercrime Prevention and Control Law (Draft for Comments).

This is official website:

https://www.mps.gov.cn/n2254536/n4904355/c10386242/content.html

In the laws, it defines anti-censorship tool is illegal, Great Firewall (censorship) is legal, and who reports bypassing the wall can get a maximum bonus of 500K CNY.

In case you can’t access website without China mainland IP address:

10386265.doc (114.5 KB)

Before the release of this law, official organizations always advertise that bypassing the censorship is illegal. If you’re caught, they always use other vague laws to convict you.

This law is even against constitution, but it will pass under protest as usual.

Well, I am actually surprised it took them so long to make it a law.

However, the lives of open minded individuals within China is going to have a even tougher time.

Lets see how long will it takes before CCP criminalise the use of foregin eSIM / roaming service BY CHINESE CITIZENS.

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It wouldn’t surprise me if they crack down on Chinese citizens roaming with a foreign SIM.

Now one government, soon there may be another.

I’m not super knowledgeable on Tor’s snowflake proxies, but the bounty on attempts to circumvent the Great Firewall would make me concerned that bad actors could operate honeypot proxies & report all IPs that connect

Tor + snowflake proxy based outside of China is probably still the way to go

Prefer sharing some pdf next time. :hugs:

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