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?
Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?
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#2Mullvad
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#3Tor should be pretty good even for environments where they crack down on VPNs, although it can be a bit slow, at least it works.
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#4megavpn, should be around a dollar a month for 5 devices.
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#5In case known VPN providers are blocked you can pick a small VPS from a hoster like Hetzner and setup your own VPN.
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#6Tor should be pretty good even for environments where they crack down on VPNs, although it can be a bit slow, at least it works.
Then you will be blocked by Twitter and Discord, which is the same thing.
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#7Folks who are looking to bypass censorship, and those who live in countries where their internet connection is not currently censored who would like to help, can look to https://snowflake.torproject.org/
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#8Aren't there local (online or print) newspapers to get news from, as an alternative to Discord? Hope I'm not asking a dumb question
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#9localtunnel.me, some node in the cloud, tunnel…
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#10Mastodon is not easy for regimes to completely block, and most instances won't block you for using Tor. Mastodon saw a huge migration from Brazil when X was blocked there.