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Comment by dryarzeg

6 hours ago

The only (probably) good thing here is that one can at least try to apply Russian experience at circumventing the censorship, where it's currently way more severe, up to the point when entire companies have their workflows disrupted because remote workers can't connect through the VPN (which is blocked). Maybe that will help.

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Andrew_nenakhov  5 hours ago

You see, the problem is that all exit points of our VPNs are in Europe. These too can be banned quite easily. Where to will we run next, given that this cancer tends to spread?

  • dryarzeg  5 hours ago

    Change the protocols, I guess? Move to some kind of self-hosted or community-run infrastructure? Because to block all of that (EDIT: to block that reliably, I mean), you will have to block the entire EU network sector, and we're likely not in "V for Vendetta" or full-blown 1984 scenario for this to be possible.

    • alexjameson  1 hour ago

      Let me tell you how it has been in Russia during last 15 years. WE saw targeted blocks that apply after cease and desist letters. Later they learned to block outgoing OpenVPN and wireguard for everybody except firms who applied to a special registry. Then they learned to cut Vless and Trojan and blocked all sites behind freaking Cloudflare due to ECH v3.0 enforced. Here also go proxies (specifically for Telegram'm MTProto) and other stuff like Quic.

      The point is if they start — they can proceed way further than you can imagine now.

  • oceanplexian  2 hours ago

    One solution is that United States radically supports free speech and provides Starlink access to Europeans as a humanitarian act.

    It would be similar to Radio Free Europe which was broadcast to the former Soviet States.

    • dryarzeg  25 minutes ago

      > United States radically supports free speech

      Sounds like some kind of utopia to me, given the current circumstances /s

subscribed  5 hours ago

You seriously think the government has a clear, honest reasons, as stated?

Companies will be exempt (with remote employees having to identify linking their IP and computer's fingerprint with their real identity), and the next step, after using the law to silencing dissent, will be penalisation.