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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: 0.2s | 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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logicchains ◴[28 Aug 25 20:38 UTC] No.45056779[source]▶
Citizen journalism avoids the main weakness of a centralised system: it's incredible suspectible to capture. A prime example of this is the mass opposition around the world to Israel's genocide in Gaza. Israel committed such genocides prior to the event of social media, such as the Nakba, but it was rarely reported on, due to media ownership being concentrated in the hands of a few pro-Zionist individuals.
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1. hdgvhicv ◴[29 Aug 25 09:09 UTC] No.45061861[source]▶
Using “pro-Zionist” when you mean “Jewish” doesn’t mean you aren’t antisemitic