[umeshunni]

They could still obtain it, but the government could still mandate that local ISPs and telcos block connectivity to it. This is like what they do when they ban websites.

[kuschku]

They couldn’t if users used a federated protocol. You can spin up XMPP servers faster than they can block them.

[matt_wulfeck]

They do ISP-level DNS banning, like what happened with Twitter.

Sometimes we can't engineer ourselves out of a problem and need to do it democratically. Looks like this government is a little rotten if you ask me.

[DroidX86]

The petition was brought forth by an RTI (Right to Information) "Activist" and Web Dev who works on security for private companies. It has nothing to do with the government.