Twitter Ban in Nigeria

Re:Twitter Ban in Nigeria by Mediterraneo10 on Saturday June 05, 2021 @09:38AM (#27404905)

Belarus is among the repressive countries that have not made it too difficult to get around censorship. Sure, sites get blocked, but you can fire up Tor or create a proxy with ssh -D and you are good.

Unfortunately, Nigeria (like several other countries in the region) is interested in the Chinese approach to filtering. The Great Firewall has been able to block Tor and SSH workarounds for many years now. So, the outlook is grim.

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Re:Twitter Ban in Nigeria by anovikov on Saturday June 05, 2021 @12:34PM (#27406451)

But everyone in China is using free internet at will, or are you joking? It's hardly possible to block it for people who actually want to access.

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Re:Twitter Ban in Nigeria by Mediterraneo10 on Saturday June 05, 2021 @01:03PM (#27406708)

No, they aren’t. Foreigners in China often get around the Great Firewall through foreigner-specific SIM cards or VPNs. A tiny, tiny amount of locals is able and interested in avoiding the Great Firewall. But for the vast majority of Chinese, the Great Firewall is never overcome; few even feel motivation to evade censorship. Compare that to a situation like Belarus where nearly every computer-literate person is aware of what to do.

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