Yes, you can ban Tor altogether and be done with the whole thing. It is doable and there is no technical workaround for it. The scenario I am proposing is actu

Yes, you can ban Tor altogether and be done with the whole thing. It is doable and there is no technical workaround for it. The scenario I am proposing is actually worse: you use the feeling of anonymity Tor proposes to uncover opponents. Yes, my tactic proposes you have a backdoor into all of ISP's infrastructure. I don't see that as a crazy requirement for most countries, even democracies. Disguising Tor traffic does not work well, and China has deployed several years ago already a tech that recognizes weird streams. Yes, you could be cloud hosting from outside the country. In the case of China though, that's likely to not work as most encrypted traffic crossing the border gets dropped (I guess unless it is HTTPS from a whitelisted source )