Discussion Ethically Online

I saw that Nepal banned a bunch of social media, among them Mastodon. Practically how would that work?
They ban the domains they know. The rest carry on as normal.

They can’t exactly ban the protocol, so mastodon posts from other instances will be cached on the unbanned instances.

The main issue would be instances hosted in Nepal. They’re probably fucked.
 
Practically how would that work?
it wouldn't

but yes - what Nebulys said :P they can ban whatever they want, creating a new instance takes minutes, so unless they just have someone combing the entire internet 24/7 for all possible instances - they can't ban it completely
 
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At what point will the internet just be what is "allowed", like in some places in the world they have internet that has a tier that is only Facebook services, everything else is blocked unless you pay, so technically it would be possible for ISPs to only service allowed sites and apps.
 
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