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I usually use snowflake as a last resort, and even that's not consistently working right now. However I've seen people recommend running Conduit[1] to friends overseas, which is an easy-to-use Psiphon proxy node. Psiphon is a popular circumvention tool here so that could be helpful.

[1] https://conduit.psiphon.ca/

We can help resurrect Murmur via https://github.com/De-Novo-Group/rangzen-revival

Here’s Tamir’s call for action https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7419994...

Unfortunately if it's public the government can also see it and block it :(

Snowflake aims to make every IP address a Tor bridge. It hides Tor traffic inside something very similar to a video call, which works in a browser behind NAT.

If the censors could probe and detect Snowflake on IPs, those will get blocked. When a censor observes suspiciously high amount of traffic to a set of IPs, it might block them or shape bandwidth.

If you're an American, demand radio free gets all it's funding back to 2024 levels, for a start. I read that people in Iran have relied on that service for a long time.