In fact, the fact that a Chengde programmer was fined one million for using a VPN to access GitHub is just a repetition of history. There are many theoretical studies in this area in political economics.

In Wu Si's "The Law of Blood Remuneration", this situation is called "officials turning into bandits": at the end of the dynasty, when risks rise and returns fall, officials may use violence to drain the lake, and legal violent groups can degenerate into bandits.