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They're going to resort to blocking IPs and not caring about collateral damage and force CDNs and anyone running multi tenant to turn the specific site targeted off or move them onto a separate pool of IPs that is easily blockable.

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The hope is that the CDNs explicitly refuse to do that, so that the collateral damage leads to pressure that forces the censor to relent.

Narrator: they didn't relent.

Do you think for a second anyone in power in China, Russia, or North Korea care if some random 20-year-old kid can access English-language sites or not?

I know North Korea is happy to cut off the entire rest of the world, but even China and Russia are not.

For China your 'entire rest of the world' ie US + Europe is less than China population.

Then we'll massively switch to VPNs, like Russians do.

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