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A comment on Ask HN: How Belarus can keep connected despite internet blackout?.

Re:Ask HN: How Belarus can keep connected despite internet b... by Tepix on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @03:32AM (#24129490)
Why and how is the internet cut off?

You could send an email/tweet to SpaceX and ask to be part of the Starlink beta program. They'd have to be granted a license for your country first, however.

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Re:Ask HN: How Belarus can keep connected despite internet b... by izik on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @04:15AM (#24129669)
Why - I suppose that government want to get tactical advantage over protesters by limiting information flow and making protest coordination more difficult.

How - both deep packet inspection + filtering and primitive solution - making communication services (mobile and broadband) stop functioning. Such things happen already in the past in Turkey, Egipt, Iran.

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Re:Ask HN: How Belarus can keep connected despite internet b... by Tepix on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @07:25AM (#24130870)
Depending on the type of filtering you could try to tunnel data across UDP (DNS?) or ICMP packets or configure hosts on both ends to ignore TCP RESET packets.
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Re:Ask HN: How Belarus can keep connected despite internet b... by Kiro on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @03:35AM (#24129504)
https://www.wired.com/story/belarus-internet-outage-election...
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Re:Ask HN: How Belarus can keep connected despite internet b... by djaychela on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @03:35AM (#24129501)
https://www.wired.com/story/belarus-internet-outage-election...
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