Chinese Netizen Fined over 1M Yuan for Using VPN

The fine is actually 200 yuan, but the salary, over 1 million yuan, which he received while working remotely has been deemed as "illegal income" and subject to confiscation.

Re: Chinese Netizen Fined over 1M Yuan for Using VPN

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Post by janalsncm » Fri, Oct 06, 2023, 5:27 AM UTC

skilled wrote: post #2

$138,000 USD Also an Archive link because the site timed out for me, http://web.archive.org/web/20231006045251/https://here.news/...

Well it’s around 3 years of his earnings which is probably a more meaningful csbenchmark.

Re: Chinese Netizen Fined over 1M Yuan for Using VPN

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Post by Barrin92 » Fri, Oct 06, 2023, 5:29 AM UTC

_hypx_ wrote: post #3

There's no possibility of China having a competitive tech industry with these kinds of restrictions.

China has literally already built the second largest tech sector on the planet on restrictions like this

Re: Chinese Netizen Fined over 1M Yuan for Using VPN

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Post by rado » Fri, Oct 06, 2023, 5:35 AM UTC

Yet various government agencies sidestep the GFW and use banned social media. Bizarre

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Post by eru » Fri, Oct 06, 2023, 5:38 AM UTC

Barrin92 wrote: post #6

_hypx_ wrote: post #3

There's no possibility of China having a competitive tech industry with these kinds of restrictions.

China has literally already built the second largest tech sector on the planet on restrictions like this

China has a thriving hardware industry. Partially built on not enforcing restrictions.

The rest of their tech sector is so-so. They do have a big internal market and a population eager for technology. It would be interesting to tease apart how much the restrictions hinder in some places, and perhaps help in a few others.

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Post by hker » Fri, Oct 06, 2023, 5:38 AM UTC

rado wrote: post #7

Yet various government agencies sidestep the GFW and use banned social media. Bizarre

To name a few:

Chinese Foreign Ministry https://twitter.com/foreignchinese?lang=en

Xi's Moments (official news of Xi Jinping and China) https://twitter.com/XisMoments

Re: Chinese Netizen Fined over 1M Yuan for Using VPN

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Post by csomar » Fri, Oct 06, 2023, 5:39 AM UTC

It's important to keep into perspective that China is a 1.4Bn people's country and highly decentralized (much to the chagrin of the pro-US). This happened under the "Chengde" administration. There might be many reasons for this: Chengde is over-zealous, The police has a particular issue with a particular individual, the central state wants some examples, the local state wants to show its toughness on VPN, the local state needs some tax money and is pillaging, etc..