For the censorship issue, of someone can't reach here than your advice is meaningless
For the ISP issue, have you heard of HTTPS? It uses military grade encryption and nearly every website has it
Lemmy is unblocked in China, at least various instances are. And https is meaningless, they don't care what particular content you access, as long as the website itself hosts potentially controversial content, you're on the hook regardless. A mere DNS resolve to a domain they don't want you to see is all it takes.
You can use DNS crypt to send encrypted DNS requests to servers outside of China
Are you in China?
Yes, I was able to use DNS Crypt earlier, but of course that's because it's under the radar and they could block all of those servers at any time they wish
DNS over HTTPS
Something that is blocked in China
How do you block https without making 99% of websites defunct?
They don't block all of HTTPS, they try to block TLS 1.3 + ESNI so they will require to know what website you're browsing
They also block encrypted connections to common servers like 8.8.8.8 so that they see what DNS request you're making
Certainly, they can't block DNS over HTTPS to your own overseas DNS server unless they know about it
Are there massive security vulnerabilities in TLS 1.2?
Yes, like telling the Chinese government what site you visit, for example
I don't think most VPN that is accessible from China is trustworthy either. There is no way out.
It's called self-hosting, you only have to buy a VPS
Well as of now we have never heard of someone being in trouble because of Reddit posts. So either they know and don't care or they just don't know.
If you self host an VPN, meaning that the outbound of your VPS/machine you host VPN can be checked, as least, what IP it connected.
So, you got to buy VPS from foreign country, not in mainland or hongkong
Yeah. If they wanted to know what you were saying, they'd simply cross reference for ISP info with your post times.
You don't know if the connection is used to post or to view posts if it's encrypted
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