It's probably disliked, just people know not to talk about it so blatantly due to chilling effects from aforementioned censorship.
disclaimer: ignorant American, no clue what i'm talking about.
CCP has quite a high approval rating in China even when it's polled more confidentially.
https://dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories/chinese-communist-part...
The indifferent mass prevails in every country, similarly cold to the First Amendment and Censorship. And engineers just do what they love to do, coping with reality. Activism is not for everyone.
The ones inventing the VPNs are a small minority, and it seems that CCP isn't really that bothered about such small minorities as long as they don't make a ruckus. AFAIU just using a VPN as such is very unlikely to lead to any trouble in China.
For example in geopolitical matters the media is extremely skewed everywhere, and everywhere most people kind of pretend it's not. It's a lot more convenient to go with whatever is the prevailing narrative about things going on somewhere oceans away than to risk being associated with "the enemy".
Wholeheartedly agree with the rest of the comment.
This is disingenuous. It's not "rewriting" anything, it's simply refusing to answer. Western models, on the other hand, often try to lecture or give blatantly biased responses instead of simply refusing when prompted on topics considered controversial in the burger land. OpenAI even helpfully flags prompts as potentially violating their guidelines.