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Authoritarian regimes have lots of infrastructure in place to censor http(s) traffic, and at least China is getting quite good at restricting tor usage. Meanwhi

Authoritarian regimes have lots of infrastructure in place to censor http(s) traffic, and at least China is getting quite good at restricting tor usage. Meanwhile they probably don't have much in place to ban specific minecraft servers, and their deep packet inspection might not cover Minecraft books. There's value in using obscure technologies.

nonethewiser 3y ago
Highly relevant hackernews comment from 2020: > It's worth noting that this project will likely not benefit the people of China. A somewhat obscure fact is that China has its own edition of Minecraft which cannot connect to servers of the mainstream edition. https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Minecraft_China https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Minecraft_China https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22569178 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22569178
- debugnik 3y ago
  > In-game text content is heavily censored, including but not limited to chat, Book and Quills, Written Books, Signs, Command Blocks, renamed items (via Anvils) and mobs (via renamed Spawn Eggs or Name Tags) > Censorship also applies to any text in the launcher, such as community posts, comments on contents, and private messages. Rental servers and virtual LAN games are not allowed to have names altogether, instead being referred to by a numerical ID I guess you don't need any obscure packet inspection if you can just censor the clients and servers directly instead. This feels like the censorship equivalent of the wrench XKCD.
- nottorp 3y ago
  Java edition still seems to allow connecting to arbitrary servers: 'Different from rental server, the owner has full permission Usually adopt third-party server application' So there is a way around? Edit: and tbh in China they're more likely to play a pirated java edition.
mcpackieh 3y ago
This website/server courts mainstream publicity, so it's not trying to fly under the radar. Blocking it would be trivial to any country that cares to, a DNS block would be effective at preventing most people from visiting either the site or the server.

nonethewiser 3y ago

Highly relevant hackernews comment from 2020: > It's worth noting that this project will likely not benefit the people of China. A somewhat obscure fact is that China has its own edition of Minecraft which cannot connect to servers of the mainstream edition. https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Minecraft_China https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Minecraft_China https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22569178 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22569178

debugnik 3y ago
> In-game text content is heavily censored, including but not limited to chat, Book and Quills, Written Books, Signs, Command Blocks, renamed items (via Anvils) and mobs (via renamed Spawn Eggs or Name Tags) > Censorship also applies to any text in the launcher, such as community posts, comments on contents, and private messages. Rental servers and virtual LAN games are not allowed to have names altogether, instead being referred to by a numerical ID I guess you don't need any obscure packet inspection if you can just censor the clients and servers directly instead. This feels like the censorship equivalent of the wrench XKCD.
nottorp 3y ago
Java edition still seems to allow connecting to arbitrary servers: 'Different from rental server, the owner has full permission Usually adopt third-party server application' So there is a way around? Edit: and tbh in China they're more likely to play a pirated java edition.

mcpackieh 3y ago

This website/server courts mainstream publicity, so it's not trying to fly under the radar. Blocking it would be trivial to any country that cares to, a DNS block would be effective at preventing most people from visiting either the site or the server.