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

1309 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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hdgvhicv ◴[28 Aug 25 18:25 UTC] No.45055331[source]▶
90% of “citizen journalism” is nothing of the sort. Just like “citizen science” researching vaccines.
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1. necovek ◴[29 Aug 25 05:11 UTC] No.45060447[source]▶
Hopefully, as a reader, you can see through the 90% and only really trust the 10% who provide factual reporting.

As with any source, always question what you are being offered: is this video clip full, what preceded it, what followed it? Who else confirms this person said this or experienced that?