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Part of me thinks this is good. Not for others, but for me at least. After all, if you can censor 98% of users by focussin on apps, why would you bother impleme

Part of me thinks this is good. Not for others, but for me at least. After all, if you can censor 98% of users by focussin on apps, why would you bother implementing technology to censor the lower levels of the internet? Who knows, we might even reach a point where new censorship mechanisms won't even bother with "low-level" traffic like HTTP(S) anymore.

jiofih 6y ago
That is the most naive comment I’ve read in years. More like they would block all network traffic that is not from apps, authenticated via one of the approved cloud providers.
- DarkWiiPlayer 6y ago
  More naive than hoping that there won't be any authoritarian censoring in the first place? Not by much, I'd say, but maybe I'm just being very pessimistic. Honestly I'm just kinda disillusioned. I know most people would gladly go along with this kind of BS and the rest of us would just get dragged along, as has happened countless times already. (Or do you really think we're in a better position now than east Germany was right after whitnessing the horrors of the Nazi dictatorship?)