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Access to a fully uncensored internet seems to be in decline nowadays, especially in the Western countries. I also saw a comment about this article being blocked in Spain. I'm just glad that my country is still holding out with no centralized censorship authority or mechanism to mass block websites, though that might not last for long with how things are going right now.

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> Access to a fully uncensored internet seems to be in decline nowadays, especially in the Western countries.

At this point, it is a global phenomenon (and there's been discussions at the UN General Assembly on carving up interwebs for "security"): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_sovereignty

Central European here. We live for piracy (imagine a more positive term). We do not intend to destroy it. Which means sci-hub and libgen are going to stay. So are torrent trackers. We have our own, too.

If piracy was somehow blocked in Central European countries, there would be actual riots.

My thoughts as well!

> I also saw a comment about this article being blocked in Spain.

I'm currently reaching it from Spain after a certificate warning. We have our own disgraceful internet access thing going on nationally at the moment, but it doesn't really depend on domains.

Works fine for me from Spain. Maybe due to IPv6...

The freedom of the internet has peaked. I firmly believe the future of the internet is balkanisation, we’ll have “state networks” like China’s with limited intercommunication. The future will suck. Archive everything.

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