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Will TLS 1.3 and ESNI support circumvent this?
Pretty much yes, unless ISPs start blocking IPs as well. We haven't seen this in India (at least yet)
Nations will struggle to block the IP ranges for big players like that without blocking a lot of stuff they don’t intend to.
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In that ranking India is only 0.01 points ahead of pakistan. Does not pass my smell test about its methodology to be honest.
As an Indian, knowing the journalistic persecution and state of free speech in India, I wouldn't be surprised if India is tied up with Pakistan. Here is some stuff to read up on this http://www.rightsrisks.org/banner/india-medias-crackdown-dur... http://attacksonrtiusers.org/
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You don't really need tor or any other VPN for that matter, https://getintra.org/ a DoH client for Android works just fine [0] [0] https://twitter.com/vinifortuna/status/1304189371688660992
DoH client won’t stop SNI blocking, of which this report found a lot. ESNI, of the new trick of using ESNI plus a fake plaintext SNI, is definitely a more robust approach.
I'm one of the authors of the post, we're trying to extend this work by crowdsourcing censorship measurements from different vantage points in India. We've compiled these tests into an android app, please consider running it if you live in India and would like to contribute to the research :) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.censorwatc... It's completely anonymous, doesn't require any permissions, an…
I remember visiting India as a kid with my family, and one of my cousins telling me about an America TV series that was banned. I didn't think much of it at the time, but as I've grown older, I've really come to appreciate the freedom of speech we have in America. I just wrote a post about it: https://battlepenguin.com/politics/why-i-no-longer-hate-amer... India is literally the largest democratic country by populati…
Ummm what? America bans films and TV series too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_banned_in_the_Un...
It isn’t clear from the article, but how do we circumvent this? Would a VPN work?
TLS1.3 + ESNI is a robust solution, Firefox has the option of enabling it. Cloudflare has a great page which allows to check this https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/ssl/encrypted-sni/
1. ESNI isn't a standard yet. So, support in mainstream web-clients is lacking.
2. Unfortunately, TLS v1.3 is blocked in countries with stringent censorship already.
I remember visiting India as a kid with my family, and one of my cousins telling me about an America TV series that was banned. I didn't think much of it at the time, but as I've grown older, I've really come to appreciate the freedom of speech we have in America. I just wrote a post about it: https://battlepenguin.com/politics/why-i-no-longer-hate-amer... India is literally the largest democratic country by populati…
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https://rsf.org/en/ranking It seems you are not that right.
In that ranking India is only 0.01 points ahead of pakistan. Does not pass my smell test about its methodology to be honest.
Journalists and editors have been openly killed in Sri Lanka for opinion pieces that dared to tarnish the government.
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https://rsf.org/en/ranking It seems you are not that right.
In that ranking India is only 0.01 points ahead of pakistan. Does not pass my smell test about its methodology to be honest.
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Free speech is not about releasing every movie or TV show produced by entitled people. It's about free speech of common people. A person getting fired for a thing he/she commented a decade ago is not free speech. USA has lot to do with free speech which really matters. USA was top country regarding free speech in maybe 1980s but now, it needs to change it's policies to be one.
You’ve made a common mistake - constitutionally guaranteed freedom of speech means freedom from the government restricting you from or persecuting you for speech. That does not mean citizens need to tolerate whatever you say. For example, a commenter on HN might break the rules and get banned by dang. Dang isn’t violating their constitutional rights, because dang/HN isn’t the government. [1] Similarly, trump the priv…