[gfodor]

I wrote:

> It may be marginal if the authority can stop it

Because often the response to claims like the one I made is to just hand wave it away as some kind of Armageddon situation. But it doesn't have to be. The USSR and the modern day CCP operate in an environment where certain levels of criminality are virtuous, but things are not so draconian or suppressive as the environment you state.

[daoismyname]

of course they would not literally cut the cables.

they would.block the crypto traffic