Originally Posted by
STS-134
It's a cat and mouse game. Circumvention technologies evolve along with censorship.
I don't doubt that at all, but I would be hard-pressed to believe that a significant number of people know how to "flip the Wall." Just for the sake of argument, suppose 10,000 people in a city of 10M are tech-savvy enough to detect loopholes in the system. That would be 0.1% leakage -- as watertight as it gets. And I can't fathom more people than that to be able to do this.
Originally Posted by
travelinmanS
I seriously can’t imagine how awful it is to be living in Wuhan now and it seems the quarantine measures are taking hold in other provinces as the government goes all out on the people’s war. Anyone who can would be well advised to leave the mainland now if they haven’t already.
FWIW, Taiwanese media are having a field day sensationalizing the degree of control that China has undertaken. Last week, they broadcasted nonstop footages of Shanghai PSB ramming into homes and smashing mahjong tables because of a (national? provincial?) edict banning non-family members from congregating, even in private homes. And now they are talking about a new law immediately affecting Guangzhou and Shenzhen that, for the first time since the Cultural Revolution, allows the local government to confiscate private property if it deems necessary for fighting the virus.