Refraction networking depends on an incentive scheme where the costs of cutting off all outside TLS access is too great a burden to bear for censoring networks

Refraction networking depends on an incentive scheme where the costs of cutting off all outside TLS access is too great a burden to bear for censoring networks or countries. However, some countries are actively working to build enough self-sufficiency and content that a smaller and smaller minority of their users will ever "need" to reach beyond state-observed wall gardens. The effectiveness of technologies like refraction networking can be amplified if paired with compelling content only accessible outside tightly controlled cyber-borders. Unfortunately, this is much harder than it sounds. I'm glad to hear that "larger, longer-term trial deployments" of TapDance are in the works.