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Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?

1309 points rickybule | 2 comments | 28 Aug 25 16:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.438s | source

Indonesia is currently in chaos. Earlier today, the government blocked access to Twitter & Discord knowing news spread mainly through those channels. Usually we can use Cloudflare's WARP to avoid it, but just today they blocked the access as well. What alternative should we use?
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diggan ◴[28 Aug 25 16:55 UTC] No.45054404[source]▶
Tor should be pretty good even for environments where they crack down on VPNs, although it can be a bit slow, at least it works.
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immibis ◴[28 Aug 25 16:56 UTC] No.45054416[source]▶
Then you will be blocked by Twitter and Discord, which is the same thing.
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1. diggan ◴[28 Aug 25 17:03 UTC] No.45054488[source]▶
Yeah, sucks, but really should find better places for people to gather regardless, if you're in that sort of environment.
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2. redserk ◴[28 Aug 25 18:40 UTC] No.45055496[source]▶
How is this practical advice in a thread where someone mentions that the clampdown happened without notice?

The "shoulda done..." advice isn't useful in the slightest, and I'd argue is malicious with how often it's done simply to satiate a poster's ego.