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Signal is taking a leaf out of Telegram's book here in crowd-sourcing censorship circumvention which has worked so well for Telegram in Russia, especially. One
by ignoramous 6y ago
Signal is taking a leaf out of Telegram's book here in crowd-sourcing censorship circumvention which has worked so well for Telegram in Russia, especially.
One could use censorship evading VPNs like Tor, Lantern, Shadowsocks, Psiphon in addition to using these proxies. They all have different evasion mechanisms.
The thing that works for user-run proxies is, it is like a hydra, you censor one proxy another crops up.
- kelnos 6y agoI'm worried that Iran is less concerned about collateral damage. Russia gave up because successfully banning Telegram would also ban significant parts of the internet that Russian businesses (etc.) depend on, so that was unworkable. I expect that Iran won't care quite as much. Regardless, I hope this does actually end up working, and allows Iranians to use Signal without a prolonged cat-and-mouse game.