Yes China will kill your network connections. And that is proof that Internet cannot route around censorship. Any time Internet routes around censorship China finds a new way to censor it.

Normal people don’t care about “downgrade” or “decrypt” or “intercept” they care about availability.

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anamexis 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Have you been to China? It is still super easy to bypass the Great Firewall with VPNs.

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kccqzy 9 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

With pre-approved commercial VPNs yes. Set up your own unapproved VPN whether it’s IPSec or Wireguard or plain old SSH port forwarding, and see how fast it gets killed.

	▲	anamexis 6 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I used Wireguard to my home residential internet almost exclusively the last time I was in China. 2 weeks, no issues.

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Terr_ an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Until a time of "civil unrest" occurs, and suddenly your "super easy" VPN becomes entirely blocked at the very same moment you wish you had it the most.

They aren't stupid, they're not going to insta-block everything they can detect, giving away clues to people trying to evade it.

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HDThoreaun an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

In times of low social unrest theyd rather create a list of dissidents than try to shut them down. Keeps unrest lower and then when they need to spin up the domestic security apparatus they already know who to watch