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Ask HN: Starlink's 60 test sats. Thoughts on impact for China?

3 points by irjustin ↗ HN
Exciting day for Starlink followers.

What do you think the impact will be on China? Especially for expats who live their lives through VPNs.

For the un-initiated: https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/15/watch-spacexs-60-satellite-starlink-launch-tonight-right-here/

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Starlink won't bypass any national firewalls. If you're in China, your traffic will come down to a gateway inside China so it will still have to go through the Great Firewall. Same for every other country. If Starlink doesn't work this way it will be outright banned.
irjustin
I was thinking more of the smuggling of any base stations.

As an expat, that would be a very nice way of getting around the firewall.