Users from authoritarian countries need to use VPN

I posted in r/help where amongst a sea of issues we were getting throttled/rate-limited... it seems no matter how old the account is. Anyone using a VPN is affected by this

There are plenty of threads in r/help about it already but I wanted to bring attention to fact that the people of China and other countries cannot use Reddit without a VPN.

See here for the now deleted post (I did try to post again to ask what gives, also deleted LOL)

I posted it to a few Chinese communities to 1) See if they were having the same issue (yes) and 2) To let them know what's going on

I've seen a lot of users in r/help suggesting to turn VPN off or other things like this and I brought up a new point that it's completely impossible and infeasible for us to do in China.

Rather than give me a response they've silently removed my post but left others up... mine being different in that it gives an actual reason why some people have to use VPN

Why am I posting here? Because unless Reddit fixes this or at least acknowledges the issue I'll be resigning from all subreddits I'm a mod of and getting out of here and going elsewhere after 10+ years on this site (across multiple accounts...)