On October 27, Qingdao University of Science and Technology held an "Anti-Fraud Lecture on Campus," listing circumventing the Great Firewall as one of its three core topics. Qu Yuanyuan, a police officer from the Jinjialing Police Station stationed at the university, stated that using an illegal VPN to access overseas websites is not a matter of personal freedom, but an illegal act that endangers network security. The university's official website disclosed this on October 29.