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Re:Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram Restricted in S... by untreasure on Friday October 11, 2019 @11:02AM (#21225036)
You need to have the ground receiver and those seem relatively easy to restrict.
Re:Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram Restricted in S... by bilbo0s on Friday October 11, 2019 @11:11AM (#21225112)
This.

People talk about Starlink like they never heard of RF engineering or something? I mean really, what does Starlink change when the entity doing the blocking is a state level actor?

Re:Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram Restricted in S... by anticensor on Friday October 11, 2019 @01:58PM (#21226788)
Hackable SDRs and small planar antennae are very cheap.
Re:Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram Restricted in S... by inimino on Friday October 11, 2019 @08:34PM (#21229639)
"Must be willing to own a device that can get you disappeared" is not a realistic solution to state-level censorship, despite cypherpunk dreams to the contrary.
Re:Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram Restricted in S... by remcob on Saturday October 12, 2019 @07:48AM (#21232305)
For bidirectional communications you need to transmit, and this means you send out a signal that can be easily triangulated.