China dev fined 3 yrs’ salary for VPN use, 10M e-CNY airdrop: Asia Express
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Our weekly roundup of news from East Asia curates the industrys most important developments.Chinese worker fined $145K over VPN An unnamed individual in China was fined 1.06 million yuan ($144,907) for using a virtual private network (VPN) to access restricted websites as part of a remote work rout…
    • sunbeam60@lemmy.one
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      2 years ago

      We’ve got a team of 100 devs working on EdTech software in China. This affects more than crypto bros.

  • dandi8@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    So, as far as I understand, he was fined 3 years salary for doing the job he was hired to do (I consider using Google/Github as part of the job).

    Utterly horrifying. Especially when you realize that merely accessing Google is illegal in China…

    • HumbertTetere@feddit.de
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      2 years ago

      As I understand it, he was fined exactly the amount he earned over 3 years of a job where he was using a VPN.

      • chaorace@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Oh, in that case it’s not horrifying at all. Who doesn’t keep 3 years of past salary in their checking account for the occasional rainy day?