On: How to Get a North Korea / Antarctica VPS

[est]

surprised to see a p3terx blog referene here. His CF WARP scripts were quite popular.

Some background info: in China, all online discourse are required to show the user's provincial-level origin, or country name for non-mainland users, using geoip. this is enforced by the Cyber Admin Commission of CCP.

[thrdbndndn → est]

I was surprised too, but later learnt the author is also from China, which explained it.

BTW, does his CF WARP scripts still work? I know he no longer updated it, but never really knew if it still works after all these months (years?).

[est → thrdbndndn]

I believe it partially works, the `warp-cli` command changed a lot in recent versions.

My impression it either setup a socks5 proxy or generate a wireguard config and connect to CF.

[miki123211 → est]

> all online discourse are required to show the user's provincial-level origin

What is the point of such a rule?

I understand why one would want to show that a foreign user is foreign, but what's the point for showing provincial origin?

[RobotToaster → miki123211]

China has a lot of local politics and is surprisingly decentralised.

If you look at how American social media is, with people from Texas claiming to know in detail what New York is like (and vice versa), it makes some sense.

Not saying I agree with it and the privacy implications, but I can see the sense.

[sanex → RobotToaster]

We should do this for national news shows that talk about Chicago.

[numpad0 → miki123211]

China has multiple levels and systems of citizenships and human rights granted...

That said, most European countries are smaller than bigger Asian cities, and no country on Earth is less than 4x smaller than China or India, so it might be just a fair game.

[londons_explore → miki123211]

Internet rules vary in different parts of china.

Some western sites are blocked in some regions but not others.

[bouncycastle → miki123211]

different provinces have different demographics and therefore slightly different sentiment?

[est → miki123211]

> What is the point of such a rule?

Hmm, it's a bit dark: China does not have a federal level task force like the FBI or CIA, raids/arrests are executed by provincial or municipal PD. It's called 公安属地原则 thingy