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It's a warning to not break terms of service. The strategy still works, but it's against TOS of most hosts so it was never really viable.

Time to look for another option then, like any other technical challenge. I support Signal's work here but unfortunately we can't just enlist every other business to help (otherwise censorship wouldn't be much of a problem in the first place).

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> "unfortunately we can't just enlist every other business to help"

But we should! Telex[1] and other solutions based on collateral freedom[2] have huge potential to disrupt censorship from the outside.

[1] https://telex.cc

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collateral_freedom

Potential sure, but considering that unblocked companies already have access today, they effectively gain nothing by creating more friction, other than short-term disruption. It's not as simple as it sounds.

> Time to look for another option then

That's the plan. This is covered briefly in the second-to-last paragraph.

> so it was never really viable

Signal remained running for more than a year and a half in several countries that were actively trying to censor the service.

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