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How India Censors the Web

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Re: How India Censors the Web

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You can bypass SNI-based VPN blocks by getting a cheap DO box and running wireguard on it. They sure as heck can't block all of DO.

Not really. https://getintra.org/ and its forks work just fine in bypassing SNI based censorship in India and do not require a VPN. Disclaimer: I work on one such fork.

I just wish there was an iOS client for Intra.

Re: How India Censors the Web

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> The whimsical attitude towards web censorship from both ISPs and the Government necessitates the development of a crowdsourced tool to monitor and measure such censorship from different vantage points in the country. I have to say, the whimsical attitude towards all kinds of censorship (not just the Internet) and to control people’s behavior is pervasive. Mass media does not focus on issues that have ramifications…

What’s worse is that legislators themselves don’t know or care much about these freedoms or are easily misled by vested interests in the bureaucracy.

Oh, they definitely know and care about it. Except what they care about is to roll out the censorship and monitoring. They are openly anti-privacy and pro-censorship. This is especially obvious in the UK and the EU.

Re: How India Censors the Web

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with SNI based blocked, its almost there. The solution to that will be TLS1.3 ESNI or VPN. (but they can block VPN as well from SNI)

You can bypass SNI-based VPN blocks by getting a cheap DO box and running wireguard on it. They sure as heck can't block all of DO.

true, but don't underestimate them. They blocked entire twitch just because one streamer was streaming IPL (Cricket) on it.

Re: How India Censors the Web

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post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can bypass SNI-based VPN blocks by getting a cheap DO box and running wireguard on it. They sure as heck can't block all of DO.

Not really. https://getintra.org/ and its forks work just fine in bypassing SNI based censorship in India and do not require a VPN. Disclaimer: I work on one such fork.

I just see encrypted DNS on the website. Is there more information somewhere else on how it avoids SNI blocks?

Re: How India Censors the Web

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Not really. https://getintra.org/ and its forks work just fine in bypassing SNI based censorship in India and do not require a VPN. Disclaimer: I work on one such fork.

I just see encrypted DNS on the website. Is there more information somewhere else on how it avoids SNI blocks?

https://twitter.com/vinifortuna/status/1306707615926423558

Re: How India Censors the Web

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How exactly?

One wrong decision at a time. Starting with demonetization. The economy has tanked and our minister attributes that to an act of god rather than take responsibility of the ill-conceived partisan measures. Mishandling Covid. Giving a fee pass to cow-urine-prevents-Covid bandwagon while planting stories about Jamaat being a conspiracy to spread Covid in India. This plays to their political base but has been recently ca…

proof??
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