Censorship does not need to be complete to be highly effective. Almost all
regulation, drugs/speeding/etc, is designed to increase the cost to the point
were “most” individuals are discouraged. While VPNs can be used to bypass
China’s Great Firewall the added friction is enough to keep most happily
engaged with easer distractions.
https://fsi.stanford.edu/news/china%E2%80%99s-great-firewall-built-friction-based-censorship-says-margaret-roberts
> On Apr 29, 2021, at 9:31 AM, Sabri Berisha <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> ----- On Apr 28, 2021, at 11:32 AM, Eric Kuhnke <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> There's plenty of non technical teenagers in Pakistan with VPN clients on
> their phone or laptop who seem perfectly capable of using a VPN to watch
> Youtube or access Twitter and other social media, during the periods of time
> that the government orders things to be blocked.
> Even my third-grader was able to figure out that she needed a VPN when I
> blocked Roblox's IP space (128.116.0.0/17) on my home router.
>
> Other than, as reports said, soldiers snipping cables in datacenters, regimes
> will have a difficult time completely blocking whatever they don't like. Even
> China can't do it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sabri
