Some background info: in China, all online discourse are required to show the user's provincial-level origin, or country name for non-mainland users, using geoip. this is enforced by the Cyber Admin Commission of CCP.
BTW, does his CF WARP scripts still work? I know he no longer updated it, but never really knew if it still works after all these months (years?).
My impression it either setup a socks5 proxy or generate a wireguard config and connect to CF.
What is the point of such a rule?
I understand why one would want to show that a foreign user is foreign, but what's the point for showing provincial origin?
If you look at how American social media is, with people from Texas claiming to know in detail what New York is like (and vice versa), it makes some sense.
Not saying I agree with it and the privacy implications, but I can see the sense.
That said, most European countries are smaller than bigger Asian cities, and no country on Earth is less than 4x smaller than China or India, so it might be just a fair game.
Some western sites are blocked in some regions but not others.
Hmm, it's a bit dark: China does not have a federal level task force like the FBI or CIA, raids/arrests are executed by provincial or municipal PD. It's called 公安属地原则 thingy