{"id":59080,"date":"2023-10-09T20:35:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T11:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/09\/chinese-programmer-ordered-to-pay-1m-yuan-for-using-virtual-private-network"},"modified":"2023-10-09T20:35:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T11:35:49","slug":"chinese-programmer-ordered-to-pay-1m-yuan-for-using-virtual-private-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59080","title":{"rendered":"Chinese programmer ordered to pay 1m yuan for using virtual private network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police confiscate \u2018illegal income\u2019 of developer deemed to have used \u2018unauthorised channels\u2019 to connect to international networks<\/p>\n<p>A programmer in northern China has been ordered to pay more than 1m yuan to the authorities for using a virtual private network (VPN), in what is thought to be the most severe individual financial penalty ever issued for circumventing China\u2019s \u201cgreat firewall\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The programmer, surnamed Ma, was issued with a penalty notice by the public security bureau of Chengde, a city in Hebei province, on 18 August. The notice said Ma had used \u201cunauthorised channels\u201d to connect to international networks to work for a Turkish company.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/09\/chinese-programmer-ordered-to-pay-1m-yuan-for-using-virtual-private-network\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police confiscate \u2018illegal income\u2019 of developer deemed to have used \u2018unauthorised channels\u2019 to connect to international networksA programmer in northern China has been ordered to pay more than 1m yuan to the authorities for using a virtual private netw&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[458,50,58,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-censorship","category-china","category-technology","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59081,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59080\/revisions\/59081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}