Ask HN: Starlink's 60 test sats. Thoughts on impact for China?

[irjustin]

Exciting day for Starlink followers.

What do you think the impact will be on China? Especially for expats who live their lives through VPNs.

For the un-initiated: https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/15/watch-spacexs-60-satellite-starlink-launch-tonight-right-here/

[wmf]

Starlink won't bypass any national firewalls. If you're in China, your traffic will come down to a gateway inside China so it will still have to go through the Great Firewall. Same for every other country. If Starlink doesn't work this way it will be outright banned.

[irjustin → wmf]

I was thinking more of the smuggling of any base stations.

As an expat, that would be a very nice way of getting around the firewall.