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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: 0.204s | 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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breve ◴[28 Aug 25 22:26 UTC] No.45057743[source]▶
You should use people power to work to make Indonesia a more open, democratic society.

Yes, it's hard work. Yes, it will take a long time. Yes, you personally may not get very far with your efforts.

But if Indonesians don't take responsibility for and work to improve Indonesia then the rest of it doesn't matter.

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protocolture ◴[28 Aug 25 22:31 UTC] No.45057786[source]▶
Part of that is knowing whats happening inside the country, of which they were previously using tools like discord, which have now been blocked. So the first step to using people power to make Indonesia a more open, democratic society would be to find a way to tunnel out to get and share that information. To that end the OP has created this Ask HN thread.
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breve ◴[28 Aug 25 22:37 UTC] No.45057827[source]▶
Nope. The outside doesn't matter. The problem is on the inside. External websites will never fix the internal problem.

There are no technical solutions to what is fundamentally a problem of political culture.

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1. degamad ◴[28 Aug 25 23:21 UTC] No.45058129[source]▶
How do you propose they coordinate the political activities when they can't use external communications sites/tools, and internal sites are actively monitored by an authoritarian government?

Step 1 is establishing a secure means of communication.