<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://fsi.stanford.edu/news/china%E2%80%99s-great-firewall-built-friction-based-censorship-says-margaret-roberts" class="">https://fsi.stanford.edu/news/china%E2%80%99s-great-firewall-built-friction-based-censorship-says-margaret-roberts</a></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 29, 2021, at 9:31 AM, Sabri Berisha <<a href="mailto:sabri@cluecentral.net" class="">sabri@cluecentral.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><div style="font-family: tahoma, "new york", times, serif; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><div class=""></div><div class=""><span id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__" class="">----- On Apr 28, 2021, at 11:32 AM, Eric Kuhnke <<a href="mailto:eric.kuhnke@gmail.com" class="">eric.kuhnke@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span data-marker="__DIVIDER__" class=""><br data-mce-bogus="1" class=""></span></div><div class=""><span data-marker="__DIVIDER__" class="">Hi,</span></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__" class=""><blockquote style="border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">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.</div></div></blockquote><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br data-mce-bogus="1" class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br data-mce-bogus="1" class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class=""><br data-mce-bogus="1" class=""></div><div class="">Sabri</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>