Comment by hnav
8 hours ago
They control the last mile of the Internet so it would require satellite networking run by another country to cut them out like this.
8 hours ago
They control the last mile of the Internet so it would require satellite networking run by another country to cut them out like this.
"I Remember Babylon" by Arthur C. Clarke.
Written in 1960, but very prescient.
If only there was some free speech absolutist who had their very own satellite Internet company. I must be forgetting someone...
PS The dishes are hard (but not impossible) to hide.
if it comes down to trying to find illegal internet terminals (a la illegal radio receivers in the past), they will just put up planes/drones at high altitudes and loiter until they hit a ground based signal