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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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GlacierFox ◴[28 Aug 25 18:27 UTC] No.45055360[source]▶
I would have laughed in your face if you wrote this comment merely 6 months ago. Now I'm just depressed. (UK)
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infamouscow ◴[29 Aug 25 00:42 UTC] No.45058673[source]▶
America's Founders saw civil rights as inherent in the Constitution's framework, rooted in natural law. They added the Bill of Rights as an explicit bulwark. That's why we have the 1st Amendment's free speech, and if that falls, the 2nd Amendment ensures we have guns.
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1. dyauspitr ◴[29 Aug 25 05:53 UTC] No.45060679[source]▶
Only to watch the GOP completely disregard every aspect of it.