A BBC investigation reveals that Microsoft is permanently banning Palestinians in the U.S. and other countries who use Skype to call relatives in Gaza.

  • @JovialSodium
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    265 months ago

    Signal is centrally hosted thus it’s proverbial rug can be pulled.

      • knightly the Sneptaur
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        145 months ago

        You can have more than one dumb pipe to push bits through, but if the ISP can read your network traffic then you have bigger problems than a single-point-of-failure.

          • knightly the Sneptaur
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            55 months ago

            I’m very lucky in that regard. Not only do we have a local ISP and mobile service from a national carrier, but the electric co-op that provides our power just ran 2.5Gb/s fiber through the neighborhood and lets members use 200Mb/s on it for free.

      • @jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
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        25 months ago

        For the most part the ISP doesn’t have a way to know you are using VoIP to contact people in a particular country (unless you are using a VoIP service owned by the ISP of course).

      • @JovialSodium
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        5 months ago

        True. Yet another linchpin.

        Edit: spelling.