[ajsnigrutin]

This will get noticed in a matter of seconds.

But if your own government tells your own isp to reroute just your traffic over some MITM proxy, it's only you there to notice, and most probably, you won't.

[lambdaone]

In an ideal world, yes, they would by shut down in seconds. Yet BGP hijacks still occur in the real world; here's one from last month: https://slowmist.medium.com/analysis-of-balancer-bgp-hijacki...

And you're certainly right about government-mandated traffic hijacking.