“But when it happened to me, I knew it was very dangerous,” he said.
The police initially wanted to detain him. However, due to fatigue caused by the overnight interrogation, the hot weather, and emotional tension, Chen was showing a higher than normal temperature when the police tried to check him into the detention center, so the detention center refused to take him.
Therefore, Haikou City Public Security Bureau had to release him on bail pending trial and asked him to pay a bond of $1,563.
Chen said he had formed the habit of bypassing the Great Firewall after he studied in Taiwan in 2016 as an exchange student. He saw a different world there. He was inspired and got many opportunities to think.
“When I was in Taiwan, I told people there were good things in China, or I talked about a lot of things they didn’t like, but they would not attack me. They respected different views,” Chen said.
After returning from Taiwan, Chen became a supporter of freedom and democracy, although he had been a “little pink,” a term that refers to young people who are brainwashed into believing in and supporting the CCP.
I suspect there’s more to the story. Most of my (Chinese) friends in China use VPNs on a regular basis without any trouble. Perhaps because he was becoming too loud about it. Keep your “head down” and you won’t be bothered about your VPN.
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Swamp creatures are taking notes.
Rhetorical question:
Where will Americans run to?
“The back is against the wall.”
VPNs use known IPs, so they are easy to spot on the target website. For example, wikipedia will not allow editing of articles via VPN IPs.
The VPN, however, ought to protect the user from identification. I’d guess that Chinese authorities deliberately distribute VPNs that they then monitor. Can’t see this happening any other way.