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Re:Facebook agreed to censor posts after Vietnam slowed traf... by ForHackernews on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @10:21AM (#22945839)
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/07/th...

I've never heard that they break the cables, but rather "bend" them so that light leaks out of the fibre.

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Re:Facebook agreed to censor posts after Vietnam slowed traf... by jlgaddis on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @04:00PM (#22949562)
It seems that'd be pretty easy to do that with, e.g., a few strands of SMF running across a datacenter, but I'd imagine it's a bit more difficult to "bend" a bundle of, say, 144 strands that are encased in a few inches of copper and steel, no?
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