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Genuine question: can violating the Great Firewall lead to a 20 year prison sentence? What about a $1M fine?


If you are small fish watching Twitch and Pornhub, couple of weeks, maybe.

If you are a dissidents influencer or online figure, on the other hand, you will be lucky to even be found out why you disappeared.




1. Hundreds of bills exist in draft form, like this one, and are never passed.

2. There are countless examples of dissidents in China disappeared that amounts to worse than a 20 year prison sentence, which again is part of a bill that remains highly unlikely to pass in its current form.

I would point to actual cases of authoritarian oppression rather than theoretical ones.




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