[hnav]

They control the last mile of the Internet so it would require satellite networking run by another country to cut them out like this.

[kbelder]

"I Remember Babylon" by Arthur C. Clarke.

Written in 1960, but very prescient.

[hunterpayne]

If only there was some free speech absolutist who had their very own satellite Internet company. I must be forgetting someone...

PS The dishes are hard (but not impossible) to hide.

[hnav]

if it comes down to trying to find illegal internet terminals (a la illegal radio receivers in the past), they will just put up planes/drones at high altitudes and loiter until they hit a ground based signal