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Re:How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's ... by toomuchtodo on Friday September 29, 2017 @04:23PM (#15368811)
> If only there was a way to proxy through google.com or some other popular domain too important to block.

Host IPFS nodes with http proxies on GCP and point the domain with multiple A records at those instances?

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Re:How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's ... by confounded on Friday September 29, 2017 @04:37PM (#15368954)
This is basically how Signal avoid being blocked in (IIRC) Saudi Arabia.
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Re:How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's ... by SEJeff on Friday September 29, 2017 @05:08PM (#15369222)
Yup.

The magic term for others to google is "domain fronting". Here is a bit more info:

http://www.geektime.com/2016/12/23/signal-updates-protect-th...

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Re:How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's ... by confounded on Friday September 29, 2017 @07:52PM (#15370249)
Ah, too late to edit, but it was Egypt and the United Arab Emirates (apologies).
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Re:How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's ... by samstave on Friday September 29, 2017 @05:03PM (#15369191)
More info please
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Re:How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's ... by finnn on Friday September 29, 2017 @05:14PM (#15369279)
lmgtfy: https://signal.org/blog/doodles-stickers-censorship/
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Re:How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's ... by samstave on Friday September 29, 2017 @05:28PM (#15369390)
You cheeky bastard... but thank you.
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