Is this true? Found on a subreddit focused on VPNs.
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I’m a Chinese resident. Everyone uses a vpn here. China will crack down on people making vpns, but they won’t lift a finger against the people using them.
Doesn’t Hakim advertise Atlas VPN in like every video now?
Me in China using a VPN to get into the global net so westerns users can tell me that using a VPN is illegal (they know more about the country I’m living in than me)
In China, VPNs are very common. A Chinese person I know confirmed this.
Also, I’d say that VPNs are hardly enforced in all other countries. Russia has a huge piracy scene, so I doubt VPNs are seriously restricted there.
As Russian this is the first time I hear about any restrictions. I use VPN almost daily and most people I know use it. Never heard that it was banned, forbidden, punished or anything else. Which is double funny because we have a lot of banned sites (both by Russian goverment and by foreign goverments for Russian users), but using VPN to bypass that is fine.
I know China and Iran have VPN restrictions so that’s accurate, but I also thought I’d heard about the EU passing some legislation to regulate VPNs quite a bit, maybe someone from the EU knows more about this
I can vouch for Turkey being restricted. I think there’s a guy, sitting in front of a computer in Ankara, drinking shit tea all day, whose only job is to search for porn and VPNs to block for the government.
using a vpn in Russia is not prohibited. yes, some services are limited, but many are available. there is no penalty for using a vpn, as well as for downloading torrents
China provides VPNs for everyone, the great fire wall is for kids and any adult can escape it with VPN.
Iranian, yes. VPNs are not easy to use here.
Mostly, there are some mistakes like Belarus though
Don’t know about others, here in Mainland China building international channels with no permission is illegal but using a non-permitted one is only considered violation, even if you browse some “not so good” sites like Falun or shit. If you abuse that too much the cops will make a call “technical you shouldn’t be doing that” and if you continued they would ask you to get verbal criticism and sign a informed sheet like “I am told that I shouldn’t be doing that and will regulate myself”. There are people that just don’t go to the cops and don’t sign on it and I’ve never heard any of them end up in jail (just sign on a piece of paper, it won’t affect anything). If you are a party member or government employee that may have some impact, just corporate wage slave then no impact at all. The only stuff that will really get you into trouble is you are smuggling weapons, drugs, involved with terrorists (just plain separatism and XX independence are fine, they don’t care civilian dissent but cares if you get some CIA money), scams, money laundering, all that stuff. I actually am disappointed that I need to buy a service and it’s just not as fast as when I’m outside Mainland China. In Hong Kong and Macao these are completely legal and fine. If you are in Xinjiang or some high priority area they would look on you heavily. It’s big country, the people who decide are you fucked or not is not a suit man in Beijing but the local police station’s dude if he’s in good mood or not (no you can’t bribe them, you need some REALLY good nepotism association to do bribery now). If you work in IT or some “we just need the vpn” industry they just don’t check on you completely. It’s like getting a beer as a teenager in US, if you want it, yeah you would get it in the end. They don’t fine you, there are some reports on getting fined but I don’t know. There won’t be some “installed special stuff on your house and router” stuff, they already have that beforehand, just loose control. If you build one and sell it for profit, well occasionally you are getting called and asked. Most who do the business are oversea or stuff. Too many scams in the vpn industry here too, with no official regulation, who knows if this seller is another scam. During important times like when they held big meetings in Beijing these are especially inconvenient but still usable mostly. Based on my experience, I’ve never getting called by anyone for doing this all day long.
why is DPRK red for no reason?
Hello from Russia. As of now (things are changing rapidly) VPN as a technology is not restricted at all. You can download VPN clients, install it, use it, install VPN on your servers etc. Many corporations use VPNs for WFH. Some foreign services are banned by the government, though.
Govt defo bans VPN apps
This is a law that exists so that when the government needs to enforce it they can, and not violate any law or principle. They aren’t actually trying to prevent it, or need to go on a witch-hunt about it. Just sometimes they need to get into someone’s business and they can probably just pop this law to do it.
VPN is illegal in Iraq
Hakim’s main sponsor is a VPN provider
Either this is fake or he is severely fucked
For Russia it’s fine. But there are some problems with tir browser (it’s harder to access it)