@dmbaturin@functional.cafe > They don't have those restrictions _yet_. For quite a few, constitutional modifications would be required for that to be a possibility. Russia and China also don't even pretend to be democracies or not authoritarian. The problem is long past online communication there. > their next step will be to ban censorship evasion. They can try it. They can also fail. If the programs are designed for the kind of store-and-forward setup I described. There are a lot of ways to hide data transmissions when you don't need either endpoint to be actively aware of the transmission taking place at any given moment. Sure it represents a massive gain in latency and unreliability, yes. > all cross-border OpenVPN traffic That's pretty much the low-hanging fruit garbage though. > There must be mechanisms that make KOSA just as impossible to pass as a bill to enslave all Black people or strip women of their voting rights. Those mechanisms are pretty far off and the current ones would represent fedposting so I won't.