Makes me wonder how long such policy would last if Google, Facebook, and Microsoft would ignore traffic from Kazakhtelecom MITM server (or just drop the whole Kazakhtelecom IP address space). Of course I'm not saying that they should do that.
Actually they really should. As soon as major networks start saying NO is when governments change, I think this is one of the few times where this kind of pressure would be mostly good.
And it wouldn't work. You've apparently have never been stuck inside China. I was there for a few years and it was brutal, network wise. Local companies just replace what can't be accessed from the outside.
China had a large domestic Internet industry, though. KZ doesn't.
RU does though.
After Donbass Kazakhstan will think thrice before lending their fate to Russia.
Exactly, and it's been blocked almost since the beginning in China, which means users are now using local products. If the users can't access the websites they are normally using the next day, they will just get some unblocking software from a friend, this things are shared really quickly.
What's worse being complicit or refusing to play by a governments rules?
It would probably have to be the entire IP address space, since they could transparently source NAT on the MITM server to make it look like it's coming from the user's IP.