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Truly a case where VPNs do make sense.

If they’re blocking all of Cloudflare I would think they could also be able to block popular VPN gateways. It’s wild that a sports league has power to dictate to ISPs like this.

Are you just stuck on it being a sports league? Just s/sports league/entity with lots of money/

No, it's wild that any private entity has the legal censorship authority. My own country is catapulting into authoritarianism, but as far as I'm aware, we haven't gotten to the point yet where private entities are unilaterally disconnecting users from broad swaths of the Internet.

VPNs would not make sense if the actual ISP if blocking you.

Apart from something like starlink and even then they're not playing nice with geographical access most of the time based on politics, whims of a narcissist, or just business.

Starlink is the only massively global ISP and (as far as I’m aware) has not cut off access for anyone based on their politics or location.

Not quite true, but merits of me saying this is murky (I'm not going to fault Starlink).

In Southern Africa, they were bringing in grey imports of Starlink from the UAE and these units have been blocked.

Except Ukraine

Not true at all, Elon Musk has already cut off access for Ukraine because of his own personal views[1]. There's a reason why he's currently hated in most of Europe.

[1] https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4193788-musk-acknowledges...

What a villain.

That article is heavily slanted, while providing the facts hidden in the text: Starlink was never enabled in Sevastopol. Musk simply denied an informal request to enable it to be used in a first strike, and deferred that decision to the DoD, which he contacted.

Which is the correct thing to do when random people ask private companies to go to war.

> VPNs would not make sense if the actual ISP if blocking you.

Unless they are outright blocking your entire connection. That is precisely why one would use a vpn. A vpn most definitely can help get around blocking key words.

you can't solve political issues with technological solutions. Sure you can use VPN, but they always can block more. As the last resort they will have a whitelist of government-approved IPs you can connect to

> you can't solve political issues with technological solutions. Sure you can use VPN, but they always can block more. As the last resort they will have a whitelist of government-approved IPs you can connect to

You are in a thread specifically talking about blocking swaths of the internet because of football games.

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