> many people are underestimating just how totalitarian and ruthless a government CAN get
Well said. I read your comment and I know immediately that it comes from first hand experience :(
I'm not aware of any technological solution to censorship by a government that's persistent enough and has firm control on everything. Unfortunately, there is also no way to overthrow a government that's ready to kill citizens, not without foreign aid.
Iranian government has the ability to inspect all packages. Of course the contents of the ones that are encrypted cannot be read, but they can do lots of analyses based on everything else and aggressively block anything they don't trust. When they are at this level, no network technology can have a large impact, because if it does, they just shut down everything like they did before.
Technologies like Starlink are harder to control, but the equipment has to be imported and doing that in scale with all the control they have is not feasible.
Well said. I read your comment and I know immediately that it comes from first hand experience :(
I'm not aware of any technological solution to censorship by a government that's persistent enough and has firm control on everything. Unfortunately, there is also no way to overthrow a government that's ready to kill citizens, not without foreign aid.
Iranian government has the ability to inspect all packages. Of course the contents of the ones that are encrypted cannot be read, but they can do lots of analyses based on everything else and aggressively block anything they don't trust. When they are at this level, no network technology can have a large impact, because if it does, they just shut down everything like they did before.
Technologies like Starlink are harder to control, but the equipment has to be imported and doing that in scale with all the control they have is not feasible.