[germinalphrase]

The ability to suppress discussion/political action in response to such a significant event (such as Tiananmen Square) would seem more difficult now with ubiquitous cameras.

Many records can be made, but can they also be shared widely enough to maintain political pressure? Maybe not, if the population is dependent on government controlled internet infrastructure. This makes Starlink more interesting. How do you prevent your population from using foreign built satellite internet if that country should choose to make it freely available to your citizens? Do you simply lose control? Do you try to rebuild/force roll out a proprietary, non-interoperable telecommunications system?

After seeing the impact of telecommunications and social media propaganda on recent world events (for instance, the Arab Spring) - I’m sure there are smart people thinking about how to plug populations into the internet against the desires of the home country. Satellite based internet seems like an obvious solution, but maybe it’s not even as complicated as that.

[Macross8299]

Hate to be "that guy", but public blockchain technologies are another strong tool that people have for resisting censorship [0]. It's much, much harder to nullroute blockchain traffic as opposed to nullrouting a website with information you want to censor. It's also very clear that the CCP is afraid of such technologies [1]

The rub is of course, this censorship-resistance being predicated on the consensus mechanism of a blockchain not being concentrated in one country.

[0]: https://theconversation.com/chinese-internet-users-turn-to-t...

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-blockchain/china-im...

[PakG1]

>> Do you try to rebuild/force roll out a proprietary, non-interoperable telecommunications system?

Honestly can see that happening. It's happened in the past for economic reasons, no reason why a government wouldn't force it for political reasons. It would be a natural progression from filtering.