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by dublinben 4577 days ago
This isn't really a "censorship resistance" tool as it is a steganography tool. You can still be censored if your internet access is cut, or you have no way to publish your message.
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> "You can still be censored if your internet access is cut, or you have no way to publish your message."

Hence censorship resisting, not censorship defeating.

Stenography is potentially useful if partial but monitored and censored communication channels remain open. See: The Great Firewall of China, or the postal system in prisons. Some data gets through, but data that they don't like does not. If the data is concealed, you can get it through.

Beyond just stenography, in the Soviet Union and beyond, some writers and artists would use allegory to criticize political figures or the state, enabling them to make points that would otherwise be censored. They could have shut down all film and book production, defeating this technique, but as long as some artistic works were allowed this channel remained open.