{
  "id": 861,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.18427v1",
  "title": "Understanding the \"Airport\" Censorship Circumvention Ecosystem in China",
  "summary": "In China, a burgeoning underground market sells citizens subscription-based censorship circumvention proxies known as ''airports''. We present the first systematic study of this ecosystem, combining user surveys, social media analysis, and active network measurements. We find that airports are by far the most popular off-the-shelf censorship circumvention tool in China, used by over half of our 1,667~survey respondents, who cite their ease of use, performance, and access to geo-restricted servic",
  "authors": "Rumaisa Habib, Mingshi Wu, Shiva Shahandeh, Min Ni, Eric Wustrow, Zakir Durumeric",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": null,
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "china",
  "published_at": "2026-06-16T19:22:14.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T14:14:50.325Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/861",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.18427v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}