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Tor is great but wouldn't an easier and higher bandwidth (for the yarr harr) solution to just buy any VPN service that exits outside of the UK?

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VPNs are yet another Cloudflare and are next in line to implement censorship.

They very well could be, but I doubt they remain in business for very long were they compelled to block the raison d'etre people use them.

The choice will be between going out of business and going to jail. They'll choose to go out of business. I've noticed that HN users often think businesses have some obligation to be infinitely sustainable - they do not. They just need to be sustainable long enough to recoup their setup costs.

Cloudflare doesn't go out of business, neither will vpns.

Cloudflare doesn't do things that send them to jail, like ignoring court orders. They'll log whatever the court tells them to log.

Cloudflare does plenty of sketchy stuff, like deliberately hosting DDoS-for-hire sites because it increases the demand for anti-DDoS products. But they will take them down if they are ordered to - and reveal their origin IP. They are not going to jail for you.

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