I have always wanted to ask such questions, as such projects come from a different kind of crowd, internet anarchists with a free world utopia in mind. Since these projects are also used by Chinese netizens, what do people think about this?

While Tor Project was DARPA made, many people benefit from it. Same goes for internet preservation projects, since internet is largely a creation of West.

I seek the perspective of native mainlanders and Chinese born here importantly, because I have not seen this being discussed anywhere.

Edit: I hate how armchair westerners have an issue with letting this topic be discussed calmly.

  • @ksynwa@lemmy.ml
    3•2 years ago

    I think you are misunderstanding the purpose of their firewall. Plus using VPNs for accessing blocked sites is very common in China and carries no punishment.

    • overflow
      -1•2 years ago

      I’m not misunderstanding anything and just because a law isn’t strictly enforced doesn’t make something legal yes they don’t really care if you use it to visit twitter/youtube/facebook etc but vpn websites are blocked in the country and they don’t allow app stores to have them so it’s not really not that far of a stretch to say they’re illegal