Enforcement is intermittent. Commercial VPNs are mostly blocked on a per IP address basis. But it's fairly easy to connect to a VPS outside China and route traffic like that. (Tunneling over SSH… (View Post)

Indeed: I use Tailscale (based on Wireguard) all the time to monitor network devices. It's kind of insane that anyone might think that banning VPNs would do anything other than impose extremely … (View Post)

If a majority of Scottish voters go for the SNP in the next year's Holyrood elections, then I believe it would be wrong to prevent them from calling an independence referendum. Voters are entitl… (View Post)

I met Clarkson at the Rugby World Cup final back in 2007. He was almost exactly the same as his TV persona. (View Post)

Presumably they would ban private VPN providers, rather than attempting to ban VPNs altogether. Although people with a modicum of tech ability can already use alternatives like Tor or indeed rolling … (View Post)