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

1308 points rickybule | 1 comments | 28 Aug 25 16:43 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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nomilk ◴[28 Aug 25 17:27 UTC] No.45054759[source]▶
Australia and UK might soon go down this path.

Something quite depressing is if we (HN crowd) find workarounds, most regular folks won't have the budget/expertise to do so, so citizen journalism will have been successfully muted by government / big media.

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JustExAWS ◴[28 Aug 25 18:38 UTC] No.45055475[source]▶
I am just waiting for red states in the US to try this too since their current laws requiring ID verification for porn sites aren’t effective.
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curiousgal ◴[28 Aug 25 19:17 UTC] No.45055923[source]▶
> red states

Well you'd be surprised to find out that this stupid policy (and many more) have been brought forward by Labour (Left).

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1. SlowTao ◴[28 Aug 25 21:21 UTC] No.45057175[source]▶
Yep, here in Australia the social media age restriction was pushed through by both sides. Two sides of the same coin.