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[–] a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

IIRC it's mainly that many corporations depend on VPNs for security - blanket banning would make it pretty hard for multinationals to work in china

[–] Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Remote work/administration too. I work on servers one of which is behind the chinese firewall, via ssh. ssh can carry socks natively, I could build a crude throttled but working vpn in seconds.

China is also slowing transfers in general, I guess to push domestic providers and servers. Even with that if they don't want to sever all economic and scientific connections it will remain possible, though cumbersome to most.

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

until AI replaces the scientists