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Signal has been blocked by Venezuela and Russia (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 month ago by fer0n to c/[email protected]

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“We’re aware of reports that access to Signal has been blocked in some countries,” Signal says. If you are affected by the blocks, the company recommends turning on its censorship circumvention feature. (NetBlocks reports that this feature lets Signal “remain usable” in Russia.)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Time to run some proxies for these oppressed people.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

There are already many signal proxies available, plus an unlimited number of VPNs to choose from (or self-host yourself on a VPS)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They're asking for more proxies now.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And Signal can be used over Tor through Orbot

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Yep. Though not sure about Russia but I know China can and does block the majority of usual Tor access methods including the obfuscating pluggable transports like obfs4/snowflake/etc.