I was in China earlier this year. Most of the popular and well known VPN endpoints were blocked. Even with stealth oriented settings. It would be pretty easy for government workers to sign up for the top 10 services, see all their endpoints and just blacklist them.
However, the VPN I had setup at my house worked fine and had no issues with being blocked on the basic VPN setup.
In the article, it quotes Ben Puttnam saying 600 Tbps is the absolute physical capacity of fiber. Is this just based on our current perspective? Did fiber engineers think we'd hit 402 Tbps back in the day?
Has there been any indication from NetBlocks how they think the government is blocking internet access? I can still see subnets being announced from Bangledesh associated providers.
This assumes a future where users are still depending on search engines or some comparative tool. Profiting off the current status quo. I would also be curious how user behavior will evolve to identify, evade, and ignore AI generated content. Some quasi arms race we'll be in for a long time.
South Korea's policy approach to uneven network load is similar to a paid peering agreement where a Tier 1 ISP provides transit for a Tier 2/3 but applied in every peering situation. The approach opens up a variety of issues[1] due to how unorthodox it is with current peering arrangements and several tech companies have already left the country.
I understand the intention of the law but I don't think it is the best approach. Maybe the fee schedule is too high to warrant staying in country?
Having a techy wife has made internet access speed our #1 qualifier for any moves over the past decade. Great neighborhood and price but it only has DSL or slow cable internet? Automatic veto.
I can only hope this becomes more and more obvious to politicians that wonder why their constituency is stagnating. Even my less techy parents recently shared that they voted yes on their city's project to build a local fiber ISP.