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by schoen 646 days ago
"Any" impact on users?

It sounds like you're working with a model in which most users are conscious that they're very offended or inconvenienced by censorship, and want to research technical means of circumventing it. I wish that were true, but I doubt it's nearly as common as your intuition suggests.

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Motives are complicated at times, but traditionally despotic movements are always hostile toward sources of truth that contradict official narratives.

However, one could be correct in that people may prefer to be ignorant. As YC karma is often negatively impacted by facts. QED =3