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Yes, it’s frustrating to see the lack of transparency and the sheer futility in some cases to find who issued an order for what purpose in which jurisdiction affecting which ISPs.

DuckDuckGo was blocked a couple of o this ago. The nebulous words “national security”, without any context, are used as the justification for blocking many sites.

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At least Indian authorities seem to be relatively open about the censorship. Here in Kazakhstan they simply block everything they want, taking down many "innocent" sites as collateral damage, and write it off as "temporary networking problems" and "works for me, what are you talking about?".

For the past week I've had numerous problems connecting to TLS directly, without using a VPN. I still update my system directly from a mirror to avoid wasting limited data on a remote VM, that's how I discovered it personally. I worry they're trying to implement something nefarious behind the scenes, again.

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