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You need to have the ground receiver and those seem relatively easy to restrict.

This.

People talk about Starlink like they never heard of RF engineering or something? I mean really, what does Starlink change when the entity doing the blocking is a state level actor?

Hackable SDRs and small planar antennae are very cheap.

"Must be willing to own a device that can get you disappeared" is not a realistic solution to state-level censorship, despite cypherpunk dreams to the contrary.

For bidirectional communications you need to transmit, and this means you send out a signal that can be easily triangulated.

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