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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tapaculo" data-source="post: 3387466" data-attributes="member: 5292">For anyone as naive as I was about VPNs, I received this in an off-line response to my post last week: "Technically illegal in China, although all my university students when I was teaching used a VPN.  A Party leader told me once that the government didn't really care what I did on the internet as long as I didn't share it with the general public...."So (duh), obviously the vendors have no servers in China, and that's not necessary for them to function.Anyway, of course neither I nor BirdForum would promote such a nefarious practice...</blockquote>