Yes I am because they are deciding at a government level what everyone should be looking at.
People are using VPNs to bypass the firewall therefore the people inside of China do not want the restriction so it's obvious that the people inside do not want to be restricted.
So yes, I deem what they are doing from a government level pathetic as it doesn't stand for what the whole nation wants. So it's not MY values of what I call freedom but my understanding of what a majority of the people inside China actually want.
If people didn't want that then there would be no need for encrypted traffic to connect to sites that the firewall would class an inappropriate.
If there was not a massive demand for this then the service would not exist. Also, if a lot of people were not doing it then they would not have rolled out software at ISP level to combat such a service.
So I would say yes, a lot of people are using a VPN to bypass the firewall
The majority of people in China do not use the Internet. Many live in rural areas and are too poor to even have a computer, never mind the Internet. Internet penetration in China is actually only at 28.8%, though it's growing.
Given this data, it's impossible to say that the majority of people in China do not want the restriction. Rather, I'd say the majority of people in China do not care because they're not on the Internet anyway. And once they get on the Internet, do they care about Youtube? No, Tudou and Youku have free licensed streaming for anything they could care about, including now licensed stuff for Western movies and TV shows. Facebook? Everyone's on QQ. Twitter? They got weibo and it's growing gangbusters and is the only real outlet for political dissatisfaction; so it's immensely popular. Twitter clients and apps? Heck, everyone's making one for weibo.
Some users want access to Facebook and the like, sure. But how many? Nobody really knows because that data is suspect when it is available. But even if nobody was interested, it's still such a huge market that even a small subset would create enough revenues for these companies to make a profit. That's why they exist. Because the market is so large anyway and it's low hanging fruit.
People are using VPNs to bypass the firewall therefore the people inside of China do not want the restriction so it's obvious that the people inside do not want to be restricted.
So yes, I deem what they are doing from a government level pathetic as it doesn't stand for what the whole nation wants. So it's not MY values of what I call freedom but my understanding of what a majority of the people inside China actually want.
If people didn't want that then there would be no need for encrypted traffic to connect to sites that the firewall would class an inappropriate.