Signal is aware of the blocks.

“Signal is being blocked in Venezuela and Russia. The app is a popular choice for encrypted messaging and people trying to avoid government censorship, and the blocks appear to be part of a crackdown on internal dissent in both countries…”

plenty of servers for both though

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The overwhelming majority of users are on the main servers. It also impacts self hosted Matrix servers that use the matrox.org identity server.

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Couldn’t they block them too? Monitor the domains people connect to, check if it’s a Matrix server and block it if it is.

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You don’t need any blockchain there, you need mixnets and hidden services like with tor and i2p

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What would a blockchain provide here?

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