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1. usernomdeguerre · 1790961094 · focus · HN ↗

   >As we’ve said time and time again: the internet will always route around censorship.

   Is this still true, or has it become a truism? It seems nations like Iran and China (and events like Kashmir come to mind) have progressed the state-of-the-art and playbook to where we can't actually say it definitively will route around it.

   Now seeing that the US and EU are flirting with these similar restrictions it's making me wonder how we'll be able to keep hold of these principles.

   Maybe my concern with that adage is ultimately its passive voice, since it takes 'active' action by people to give us those options, and will probably take more actions by more people to keep it alive now.

   1. TJSomething · 1790961295 · focus · HN ↗

      It seems like Utah could do mostly do this by intercepting all consumer traffic.

      1. iAMkenough · 1790962834 · focus · HN ↗

         With some sort of whitelist of IP addresses that consumers, travelers, and business executives are allowed to connect to while in the state?

         A VPN/proxy could exist at almost any single address at any given time.

      2. jason1cho · 1790963013 · focus · HN ↗

         Just buy the surveillance equipment from Russia and get it done.

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