China is the obvious example, with out-of-country traffic severely restricted and Chinese sites made to cooperate with the authorities. It must help the rulers that China has little in the way of liberal traditions, having gone from one autocracy to another for thousands of years. Yet Hong Kong held up surprisingly well for many years before being firmly stomped on.
Unbreakable encryption can never be wiped out, but it can be driven underground. Even China hasn't outlawed VPNs; they're too useful for business. Most countries' Internet is too decentralized to put a "great firewall" around it, and as long as they can't, other countries have an incentive to offer privacy. It could happen, but it would take the work of decades.
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Date: 2020-11-19 08:00 pm (UTC)Unbreakable encryption can never be wiped out, but it can be driven underground. Even China hasn't outlawed VPNs; they're too useful for business. Most countries' Internet is too decentralized to put a "great firewall" around it, and as long as they can't, other countries have an incentive to offer privacy. It could happen, but it would take the work of decades.