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"Signal is being blocked in Venezuela and Russia. The app is a popular choice for encrypted messaging and people trying to avoid government censorship, and the blocks appear to be part of a crackdown on internal dissent in both countries..."

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Couldn't they block them too? Monitor the domains people connect to, check if it's a Matrix server and block it if it is.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

for sure and it would end up a game of cat and mouse if they persisted like that, or you could use something blockchain based with a bunch of redundant relays ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What would a blockchain provide here?

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

You don't need any blockchain there, you need mixnets and hidden services like with tor and i2p