1990s era myth. Falsified entirely nowadays but anyone who's ever been in a non-first tier democracy. The internet drops packets and they don't get through. And

1990s era myth. Falsified entirely nowadays but anyone who's ever been in a non-first tier democracy. The internet drops packets and they don't get through. And we're not just talking about the Great Firewall of China. More or less democratic states - and sometimes the free market of ISPs - will effectively censor you. That's precisely why Mozilla has tried to create a new protocol to deal with the censorship. A bunch of people doing work to negotiate and implement a new protocol is not "the internet" unless you have the most depraved view of people or a view of "the internet" so broad as to be completely meaningless that we even had the internet in mediaeval Sweden.