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Comment by toomuchtodo

4 days ago

Can nation states ban email or bittorrent? Entities can be targeted, protocols less so. Where the algorithm is matters.

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Karrot_Kream  4 days ago

Nation states definitely can by using port targeting, traffic heuristics, and DPI. The US historically has not done this but several other states have. Even if protocols are preserved, I wouldn't want to be in a situation where I have to run a client on my local machine that consumes from the protocol. I want to be able to use a hosted client.

A user should be able to use another person's hosted Mastodon instance or Bluesky AppView/Relay.