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“Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this”

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Re: “Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this”

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> I have no choice but to obey. Did he ask a lawyer? Because it looks to me there are two possibilities. One, he was not doing anything illegal in which case the police had no authority to stop his activities. Two, he was indeed doing something illegal in which case he can be glad he got out of it with what appears to be only a warning.

It's of no use. If he's lucky, he would "receive" a fabricated charge; if he's not, he would simply disappear.

Re: “Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this”

#162

This is the end of a century. People in China had used 4 kinds of tools to skip the GFW: freegate, openvpn, goagnet, shadowsocks. freegate is a traditional http proxy or socks proxy built by Falun Gong ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong ). They built lots of software with the same technology: freegate gpass freeu dynapass... People share this kind of banned software sending to each others just like teenagers…

It already comes a few years ago when Xi got the power..(I mean the hole country is in winter, including movie Animation..)

Re: “Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this”

#164
post #120

As a Chinese developer, I got more and more disappointed to my country. I'd read a book written by LinYutang, called My Country and My People. All my understandings of my country after reading this book are not same as nowaday China. What's wrong? I don't know. I just wanna have freedom for Googleing. I just wanna the people in this country be happy not only because they get enough to eat.

Can't agree more..(same as a Chinese developer)

Re: “Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this”

#165
post #104

On this note, we've been trying to upload gigabytes of data via rsync from Europe to China (we are software company who are trying to deliver tools to our Chinese customers..). Connection used to be fast when it was night time in China, but lately the connection has been really slow or unusable. Is there any alternative way to get lots of packages from Western countries to China?

setup a server with aliyun. the cloud service provider from alibaba. And relay the traffic from there.

aliyun sucks when connect to github

Re: “Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this”

#166
Is this then a sign that the network architecture of back hauling everything to SF in order to send it back to Beijing so one can update ones neighbours wall, that architecture is flawed and needs to fall back to a peer to peer approach - one that truly can route around censorship

Re: “Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this”

#167
post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Does booting an alternate OS still work to get around it, or have Apple thought of that route and somehow blocked it too? It's easier than that. It's just a kernel argument to disable it. Simply add "rootless=0" to your boot-args and you have control of your machine back. I'm running the 10.11 beta and I've already had to disable rootless because I like to have /usr/local as a symlink to somewhere else and by defau…

Apple has stated that the "rootless=0" boot argument to disable System Integrity Protection is temporary and will be gone in the GM version of El Capitan. Allowing this route to disable the feature would defeat the entire purpose of it.

Apple have recently made a few changes to how you enable/disable System Integrity Protection...

https://www.reddit.com/r/osx/comments/3hv3kk/update_on_rootl...

Re: “Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this”

#169
post #143

> I have no choice but to obey. Did he ask a lawyer? Because it looks to me there are two possibilities. One, he was not doing anything illegal in which case the police had no authority to stop his activities. Two, he was indeed doing something illegal in which case he can be glad he got out of it with what appears to be only a warning.

I didn't get where he/she is from.If I were him and I was in US I would fight back with legal system, but if I were in china and Iran I would run away (sadly because there is no reliable legal system in these countries)

can't agree more, law in china is a laugh

Re: “Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this”

#170

Oh dear, I hope the clones of this repo on Github don't cause the GFW to block Github altogether.

Government used to block Github in past few years. Then lots of programmer strongly disagreed with it.

however,browse github has been harder in 2015.

I love my motherland but i really hate what the government has done.

sorry for my poor english

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