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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: 1.328s | 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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rd07 ◴[28 Aug 25 22:51 UTC] No.45057924[source]▶
I live in Indonesia, and I don't find any recent news that mention X (formerly Twittwr) and or Discord being blocked by the government. The only relevant news from a quick Google search I can find is about the government threatened to block X due to pornography content in 2024. You can even check for yourself if a domain is blocked by visiting https://trustpositif.komdigi.go.id/.

Also for your unability to access the VPN, as far as my experience goes, in the past some providers do block access to VPN. But, I am not experiencing that for at least the last 5 years.

So, maybe you can try changing your internet provider and see if you can connect to VPN?

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1. reinaldnaufal ◴[29 Aug 25 01:21 UTC] No.45058946[source]▶
There was a reported outage of cloudflare in Jakarta, while simultaneously people can't access Twitter and Discord. The worst part is that it coincides with the time when people need the information to find a safe route to go home after the protest.
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2. rd07 ◴[29 Aug 25 02:25 UTC] No.45059377[source]▶
Yes, this is the most likely explanation I can find, not a nationwide blockade.