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If you block the packets, people will just use a VPN. The best you can hope for is something like the Great Firewall, which only works on normies.
by octoberfranklin 9mo ago
If you block the packets, people will just use a VPN.
The best you can hope for is something like the Great Firewall, which only works on normies.
- prussia 9mo agoSure, ultimately technical/knowledgeable people will be able to get around it. But preventing normies from accessing Anna's Archive is what they care about, because most people are normies.
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- octoberfranklin 9mo agopreventing normies from accessing Anna's Archive is what they care about Seriously? Anna's Archive hosts ebooks and scholarly journal articles. Not the kind of stuff your average Instagram Influencer (TM) is into. I'd be utterly shocked if more than 1% of the population had ever used Anna's Archive. This isn't like Hollywood movie torrenting sites or IPTV sports streaming piracy. It's a long way from mainstream.
- prussia 9mo agoYes, seriously. The vast majority of people who read books or scholarly articles wouldn't have a clue how to bypass internet censorship (the "normies" in your definition). If you copy ebooks to a USB and put it at the summit of a tall mountain, for anyone to take, the authorities and "rights"holders will not give a damn. Convenience and scale matters, and that is why Anna's Archive is a target.
- charcircuit 9mo agoIn this scenario your VPNs would still need to find a ISP that would let them route packets out of that country. This means that instead of a legit VPN company you have to deal with cyber criminals to get such a VPN.
- allarm 9mo agoBlocking traffic from a resource and blocking the whole country are two entirely different scenarios.