It's funny that they say people use Tor "for a variety of reasons related to pri...

HeavenFox · on April 22, 2016

Unfortunately, it's been a very, very long time since Tor was last usable in China.

wormseed · on April 22, 2016

With the meek-amazon or meek-azure bridges it works fine, albeit slowly.

alexchantavy · on April 22, 2016

Can you elaborate? Someone above commented that Tor was the only way they were able to get out of the GFW.

chrisfosterelli · on April 22, 2016

China uses fairly complex artificial intelligence to detect TOR connections. Anything that "behaves like" TOR or a VPN is quickly caught on to and blocked.

There are a few attempts designed to make TOR look more like standard web traffic, which are really interesting.

It's definitely a cat-and-mouse-style game. Some have more success than others.

cloudjacker · on April 22, 2016

I heard that internally, China has a very robust internet infrastructure, and it is just connecting to things on the outside that are broken

envy2 · on April 22, 2016

"Broken" would suggest that this isn't intentional. But yes, you are correct; domestic internet is fine, but traffic in/out is slowed and interfered with nearly to the point of being unusable.

jokoon · on April 23, 2016

Last year I was at some public school which filtered many thing with a proxy. I used TOR to be able to slack on reddit and hackernews.