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…
  • Nakoichi [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    1218·
    1 year ago

    The ruling has spooked many in China’s IT and Web3 circles

    Won’t someone think of the poor crypto bros! Lmao.

    • dandi8@kbin.social
      11·
      1 year ago

      I don’t know what web3 is doing there, but I imagine this is terrifying if you’re doing IT for western companies in China.

    • sunbeam60@lemmy.one
      83·
      1 year ago

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

      • BlueBockser
        22·
        1 year ago

        Well yes, but it’s weird that the article mentions Web3 in particular.